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stec live in the guts of ruminant animals, including cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and elk. the major source for human illnesses is cattle. stec that cause human illness generally do not make animals sick. other kinds of animals, including pigs and birds, sometimes pick up stec from the environment and
infections start when you swallow stec—in other words, when you get tiny (usually invisible) amounts of human or animal feces in your mouth. unfortunately, this happens more often than we would like to think about. exposures that result in illness include consumption of contaminated food, consumption...
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