1. What are some of the ways people can be affected with E. coli O157:H7?
People can get infected by E. coli O157:H7 by drinking contaminated water, swimming in contaminated lakes, playing at a contaminated water park, or crawling on a contaminated carpet, but the most common is from eating undercooked ground beef.
2. What kinds of things are fed to cattle, things that might facilitate to the spread of pathogens?
Cattle are fed livestock wastes, the rendered remains of dead cattle and sheep, dead cats, and dead dogs. This was stopped in 1997 when when Great Britan suggested that this was the responsibility for mad cow disease. Now only dead pigs, horses and chickens can be fed to cattle.
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