BBC NEWS | Wales | E.coli school testing under way
Posted by GruntDoc on 6th November 2005
Since their E. coli “virus” gaffe, I’ve been watching BBC Health news to see what was next. The answer: studious avoidance of actually coming out and either admitting a mistake, or calling it a bacteria (bacterium for the stickler in the audience).
As an example, here’s today’s story about E. coli:
BBC NEWS | Wales | E.coli school testing under way: “….So far 159 people, most of them children, have been affected by the spread of the E.coli 0157 bug which first emerged in September.”
So, there you have it. It’s a bug (I do call them bugs when discussing infections with patients, but I’m not a News Organization).
And I’m never going to get tired of that petri dish photo.
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