Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that at least 72 people in 5 states have already gotten sick from an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) O103. If you don’t wash your hands carefully after touching an animal or its environment, you could get an E. coli infectionparticularly cows, sheep, and goats. But you would be surprised by how much poop gets around if you don't wash your hands. For now, the CDC and other authorities are searching for a source of this latest STEC outbreak. The aforementioned food safety recommendations should apply regardless of whether there is a STEC outbreak.

Source: Forbes April 06, 2019 02:26 UTC