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	<title>LRB blog &#187; Hugh Pennington</title>
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		<title>Ferrets of Mass Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big question for virologists in recent years is why H5N1 influenza hasn’t mutated to cause a pandemic. It is as feeble today at spreading from person to person as it was in 1997, when it first drew attention to itself through a dramatic chicken-to-human outbreak in Hong Kong. H5N1 human infections are very nasty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cure for the common cold (and rabies, flu, HIV&#8230;)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cell suicide by a programmed process – apoptosis – is necessary for human health. It starts long before birth, sculpting us as embryos. It is essential for the proper functioning of our immune systems and of organs that continually produce new cells, like the intestines and bone marrow. When it goes wrong, it can lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic doesn&#8217;t mean healthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t think that because your salad sprouts are organic, grown on your window sill, and supposedly good for you, that they haven’t accumulated many food miles or are safe to eat raw. Compelling evidence published by the European Food Safety Authority yesterday points to fenugreek sprouts as the vector of the E. coli that caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Off the Sprouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It&#8217;s the sprouts,&#8217; the head of the federal Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Reinhard Burger, announced on 10 June. No surprise. Bean-sprout food-poisoning outbreaks occur regularly. The first big one was caused by Salmonella in the UK in 1988, when 143 people fell ill after eating contaminated mung bean sprouts. The outbreak in Sakai City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of E. coli</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The E. coli outbreak in Germany is enormous. In case numbers (so far) it falls short of the 1996 outbreak in Sakai City in Japan, but the number of those in Germany going on to develop haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), the main complication, which affects blood cells and kidney function, is far greater than in [...]]]></description>
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