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Yet another "super bug"

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E. Coli can be a particularly nasty bug if you ingest one of the drug resistant strains. The antibiotic resistance is shared from organism to organism by viruses called bacteriophages that carry the gene for resistance from one bug to the next. Now there is a new stain moving through Europe in infected vegetables that has people worried. here's the link