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Derek Turner wrote:
On 5 Apr 2003 11:57:46 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

Ummm... Typhoid and paratyphoid are caused by Salmonella species.

A good point! But not the species that are endemic in fish, eggs and
so on, which are the ones normally referred to as Salmonella. We are
well adapted to those.

IIRC S. typhi and S. paratyphi are (always? nearly always?) passed
from human to human via faecal contamination rather than being 'food
poisoning' in the usually-accepted sense. Now wash your hands please!

Shades of the probability that Lister's original antisepsis worked,
not by disinfecting the air, but by disinfecting the surgeon's hands!

Cholera, too, is very unlikely to be contracted by a healthy
well-nourished adult. Its association with slums has more to do with
nutrition than hygiene.

Interesting. Not what I had been led to believe.

So, from a gardener's viewpoint, cleaning vegetables for eating raw
really is a matter of eliminating the cat/dog/etc. carried parasites,
and has nothing whatsoever to do with what we were told it should be
done for. Admittedly, there are even nastier parasites in the tropics,
where the recommendation was to wash salads in potassium permanganate.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.