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I'm not trying to say this is a joke, Larry, I'm just curious as to what tipped the scales/sounded the alarm on this particular outbreak, since it's not like it just came out of nowhere. With the statistics that are listed, I wouldn't even think the CDC would have been alerted to draw attention to the peanut butter angle. 300 cases since August are well within the norm, if that's an appropriate term. The article doesn't say what tipped them to peanut butter, just that 80% of those cases said they ate it. Does that mean that we can cut 20% off what they used for figures? Or is there something else that's not reported? See what I'm getting at now?
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Apparently, everybody is using the same source for story, as the Washington Post has the exact same story listed. However, in my search for other stories about it, I found several mentions of an outbreak earlier in 2006 that were linked to lettuce/tomatoes.
[ 02-15-2007, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: robertthebard ]
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