Dr. PowellI have noticed a tendency to be sloopy in the labeling of disease associated with specific subtypes of E. coli. As a food safety expert I would hope that you would use your good offices to push back on this "pathogen generalization" and be specific. Your reports lose credibility and cause confusion when they imply that E. coli cause disease. This is particularly important when the news reporter has used the sloopy term E. coli when it is obvious that the virulent organism was a well recognized serotype. You know that there are only rare subtypes that are associated with illess. Your posting go out to a very large audience and sloopy terminology leads to unnecessary confusion, and scientific inaccuracy. Please be careful yourself, and admonish others to be equally accurate.Ted