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VTEC: lessons learned from British outbreaks
Author(s) -
Pennington T.H.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 1364-5072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2000.tb05336.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , blame , context (archaeology) , vtec , metaphor , perspective (graphical) , geography , political science , biology , virology , psychology , escherichia coli , archaeology , social psychology , linguistics , genetics , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , gene
SUMMARY 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.