about cucumbers and E. coli

the best definition seems to come from:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3184

"Escherichia coli, the colon bacillus, a bacterium that normally resides in the human colon. E. coli has been studied intensively in genetics and molecular and cell biology because of its availability, its small genome size, its normal lack of pathogenicity (disease-causing ability), and its ease of growth in the laboratory."

"However, some strains of E. coli are capable of causing disease, sometimes disease of deadly proportions."

"Most commonly, E. coli 01257:H7 comes from eating raw or undercooked ground beef (hamburger) or from drinking raw milk or contaminated water"

so let's boil up the cucumbers!

picture from the internet.