Anche in Italiano
Infection
It's going to be transformed into a true psychosis: I speak about Escherichia Colii disease that is apparently spreading in North and Central Europe.
There are many cases in Germany and some around the north of Europe.
That disease spreading has a strange behavior: I guess that Germans clean sufficiently well their vegetables before they consume them (they did it for sure before the last happenings about E.C. as well) to normally have no risk from bacteria of any kind to reach an amount to become critical and dangerous for human health. Normally the risk for enteritis to be so lethal is water contamination and consequent ingestion of a huge amount of bacteria. Here it seems this is not the case: not an eavy contamination in term of ingested bacteria at once.
The disease spread
Yet the disease seems to spread around and seems to flood off.
E. Colii. is not a contaminant with a carrier person-to-person, like it was in the past plague, nor brought from birds or introduced with contaminating meat neither. It must be ingested and it must reach a remarkable amount before it becomes dangerous.
It is simply declared brought by vegetables: it means that only few, or seemingly single, bacteria are contaminating vegetables then infecting hosts, eating contaminated vegetables.
So there are few important factor were not taken enough in care of during present times:
- Any disease comes from an agent, in this case bacteria (this is accoounted!)
- Every infection in present case comes from a clean carrier, like vegetables (for sure they were washed enough by their users);
- they cannot be so contaminated to consider them as the main reason of infection in term of mass, critical for that infection to be dangerous.
- Strong extemporaneous (not resident) infections are normally very weak microorganisms that can survive only in particular environments, well selected and well protected, like particular Ph or in total lack of any competitor.
- Evolution never foster lethal microorganisms like the presently considered: it has to struggle for surviving.
- infections can be lethal if they can develop into a favorable environment inside the host and for a sufficient time.
- The spare cases seam to be more related to a weakness of the host organism than to a true pandemic risk, like it was in the past for plagues or in the recent years for bird flue.
So those aspects signalize that the reason why that particular microorganism can produce so lethal result seams to be the chance for it to develop undisturbed and invade the intestine without competitors inside the host organism.
Natural Ceases
When I worked in dairy industry I've spoken some times about the presence of E.C. in ceases and capacity for biologic flora of natural ceases to coerce it (avoid development of E. C. up to a critical point, critical for host organism). Some particular natural ceases have this kind of well balanced natural flora, capable of coercing and thus limiting E. C. and other dangerous microorganisms to an amount that is far from being critical.
Today, many persons for wellness purpose or thinking to improve their health tend to assume single or mixed specialized intestinal flora.
Does this habit be a risk with a presence of dangerous microorganisms?
They are not and they have no natural competitors to E. Colii and they maybe permit a strong vulnerability when a completely unexpected microorganism appears in the environment.
I remind that when I traveled in foreign countries the first times I moved outside Italy in my life: I suffered for intestinal troubles for some days then, travel after travel after travel, they were reduced to a zero reaction. After that, I feed myself with raw sea foods bought in small food stores on the road or on the shores in China and Thailand without problems: my flora got long experience of surviving.
This last example support my doubt: I strongly believe that it is important to assume natural flora like the one you can find in cured natural ceases like Italian Taleggio, Gorgonzola or French Roquefort or Roblochon, or other ceases you can find in Spain, Greece, Germany and all over the world too.
Intestinal Flora is a System with its own equilibrium, not a single bacterium factory: better to keep it well balanced, instead of asking it particular performance!
I suggest: just natural/traditional ceases till that danger finishes!
