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Y’know, I’m just a grad student and all, but it’s pretty standard that you have to have more than just suspicion to finger a single ingredient in a common-source food-borne outbreak. A dish, sure, you can figure that out pretty easily—but a single ingredient? Especially when said dish has pretty standard ingredients across the board? It sounds to me that someone jumped to a conclusion before it was really warranted and ran with it.
My money’s on the cilantro. It is pure, unrestrained EVIL.
Zoonotic diseases, those which have an animal as the reservoir but may be transmitted to humans, are often known as zoonoses. That’s one of those awesome words, like Uranus, that reveals a lot about people based on how they pronounce it. Some folks just go all out and say “zoo-noses”. Others are worried that people might think they’re referring to an elephant’s proboscis and carefully say, “zoh-o-nosees”. Extra points if you wrinkle your nose and sound a bit British.
