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VTEC: lessons learned from British outbreaks
1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Aberdeen, Medical School, Foresterhill, UK.
Symposium Series (Society for Applied Microbiology)
|July 6, 2000
Abstract:
Important Escherichia coli O157 outbreaks in England and Scotland since 1982-83 are reviewed. The scientific lessons learned from them are described and their legal consequences outlined. The light shed by them on relationships between law and science is discussed, and questions of blame are analysed in the context of Reason's 'resident pathogen' metaphor and Vaughan's study of the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.