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The pathogen is not E. coli H057 but rather E. coli O157:H7

There is an excellent information page on the variant at:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html

The School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison has a 
relatively straightforward paper reporting the relationship between animals 
and E. coli O157:H7
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/O157DT104/O157DT104index.html

It would appear that ruminants are the primary carriers of E. coli O157:H7 
but deer, horses, dogs, birds and flies may also be sources, not to mention 
humans :(

The family of E. coli bacteria as Robert wrote is omnipresent.  We all have 
E. coli in our systems and would be in serious trouble without it.  The 
strain E. coli O157:H7 is a mutation, now established, which differs from 
its beneficial cousins dramatically with as few as 10 microbes being 
capable of causing illness and even death.


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