One day yes one day no, merciless fingers were pointing again once more at the poor Spanish cucumber being the culprit of the outbreak of E.coli causing 29 deaths in Germany.
The authorities have announced that they have found contaminated cucumber amongst the rubbish of a family in Nagdeburgo, although the discovery conclusive that it was the cause of the infection. In fact, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health of the State of Sajonia Anhalt, Holger Paech, said on Friday: 'It's not clear whether the cucumber infected the people, or people infected the cucumber.'
There you have it. All that publicity being permitted to circulate internationally before any fact was actually established has Angela Merkel, used huge damage to the sector of not just cucumber growers, but has affected the entire section of any fruit and vegetable produced in Spain; no more export, not even local consumption as psychologically, most people take the 'just in case - better safe than sorry' type of attitude. That's what ant type of rumour does. More so when it concerns health and life.
But despite all that, the Chanceller Angel Merkel, in her first public allusion to the epidemic, assured that 'There had been a good coordination between responsible and competent authorities.'
Neither here nor there sort of non-committal comment. The 1st commandment of any politician.
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