This is why I don’t eat raw sprouts – anywhere; and hope Amy isn’t barfing on the plane on the way home from Switzerland tomorrow after her salad with raw sprouts yesterday.

Health-types have just announced that German-grown beansprouts are the likely cause of the recent E. coli outbreak that has resulted in the deaths of 22 people.

A spokesman for the agriculture ministry in Germany’s Lower Saxony state said people should stay away from eating the beansprouts, which are often used in mixed salads.

The new lead on the outbreak comes as the death toll in Europe increased to 22.

A table of North American sprout outbreaks is available at: http://bites.ksu.edu/sprout-associated-outbreaks-north-america.

And I already had a student adding all the international outbreaks.