Message #2305

[AndrewF]

If you eat raw food you will be at risk - especially if it is 'organic'* - It all comes down to hygiene and food-handling. Since you can only contract this illness by ingestion of contaminated faecal matter, provided any raw veg is carefully washed and you take care of personal hygiene you should be OK. So far the only cases have been contracted in Germany, and since Spain exports veg all over the world, I personally suspect the source is probably local to Hamburg  where most of the cases have been.
*Organic veg is more of a risk as the only fertiliser permitted to organic growers is manure....