Brenda Young wrote:
> I live and work very near to the part of Santa Barbara County, CA, where 
> the infected spinach was found. Others have mentioned the various 
> explanations that have been given. Personally, I don't worry about it 
> very much. The news reports always say that the persons most endangered 
> by this sort of contamination are small children, the elderly, and those 
> with compromised immune systems due to disease. Since everyone in my 
> household is young and healthy, and there are no children, I don't give 
> it a second thought. I can deal with some "flu like symptoms" if I have to.
>    
>   *****  Oh, I absolutely agree with you, Adam-not-William, hehehe.  I am not worried about the ecoli...it was just one of those things that someone asks you and then it makes you curious, is all!!  (About how it happened.)  I told them the same thing you just said...If ya ain't real old, real young or real sick, ya don't gotta worry about it!!!
>   
P.S. I heard on this morning's news that the Taco Bell green onions were 
grown in a field in Oxnard that I drive by every day on my way to work. 
Of course, now they are saying that they aren't sure if it was the green 
onions after all...