MYTH # 5
“there is no evidence that we have failed to protect the public health and environment” (2006)”
Wesley Carr, Environmental Protection Specialist
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Water Quality Control Division
http://www.epa.gov/region8/water/biosolids/pdf/Biosolids%20Inspection.pdf
"It's only when a strange alliance of the stars occurs you get an extraordinary event like this,” (2011)
Jim Gorny, a produce safety expert at the FDA.
http://news.yahoo.com/listeria-outbreaks-produce-rare-deadly-225335003.html
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Coliforms: Dangerous Biological Bioterrorism Agents
By Jim Bynum, vp 11/11/2011
Help for Sewage Victims
Edited by Gail Bynum, Ph.D
Table of Contents
Introduction 2
Background on Biological Bioterrorism rule 3
Coliforms as Bioterrorism Agents 7
Escherichia coli, all enteropathogenic serotypes 11
Edwardsiella tarda 18
Klebsiella - all species and all serotypes 21
Proteus - all species 27
Salmonella - all species and all serotypes 31
Shigella - all species and all serotypes 36
Yersinia Enterocolitica 37
Yersinia (Pasteurella) pestis, (Black Plague) 38
Unlisted Primary Coliform Bioterrorism Biological Agents
Citrobacter 40
Enterobacter 42
Unlisted Secondary and Emerging Coliform Biological Agents
Averyella 46
Budvicia aquatica 46
Buttiauxella noacki 47
Calymmatobacterium 48
Cedecea 48
Ewingella 49
Hafnia alvei 51
Kluyvera 53
Leclercia adecarboxylata 55
Leminorella 57
Moellerella wisconsensis 58
Morganella 60
Pantoea 63
Photorhabdus 64
Providencia 66
Rahnella aquatilis 68
Serratia 69
Tatumella 75
Xenorhabdus 77
Yokenella regensburgei 79
Conclusion 80