Study to find why abattoir workers immune to E. coli
SCIENTISTS at a Scottish university have set out to discover why farmers and slaughterhouse workers appear to be immune from the potentially deadly E. coli 0157 bug.
A total of 50 livestock farmers and slaughterhouse employees from the north-east of Scotland are being recruited by a team of researchers at Aberdeen University to test the theory that continuous and frequent exposure to the bug makes someone more immune to infection.
But for reasons still to be explained, people living in the NHS Grampian area are more likely to contract the infection than people anywhere else in the world. The infection affects around 50 people in Grampian annually, out of a population of about half a million.
Volunteers from the north-east will be tested alongside farmers and abattoir workers from Wales, and their immunity compared to that of members of the public from both areas.
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