People really are dumb enough to believe this hype? How soon until everyone is wearing gas masks everywhere they go? (got close to that during SARS).
Among the ill persons, 95 (52%) were hospitalized, 29 (16%) developed a type of kidney failure called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), and an adult in Wisconsin died. One hundred thirty-one (72%) were female and 17 (9%) were children under 5 years old. The proportion of persons who developed HUS was 30% in children (<18 years old), 8% in persons 18 to 59 years old, and 15% in persons 60 years old or older. Among ill persons who provided the date when their illnesses began, 85% became ill between August 19 and September 5. The peak time when illnesses began was August 30 to September 1 -- 33% of persons with the outbreak strain became ill on one of those 3 days.
.000000009% of the population gets some form of e. coli (ver common), and everyone goes nuts and stops eating spinach? It's spinach from three select counties in California.. You have a better chance of winning the lottery on your birthday, walking outside of the store and getting struck by lightening at the same time that Osama Bin Laden self detonates at the self-serve gas pump.