Associated Press:  London - Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe's worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new.  While suspicion has fallen on raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce as the source of the germ, researchers have been unable to pinpoint the food responsible for the frightening illness, which has killed at least 18 people, sickened more than 1,600 and spread to at least 10 European countries.  An alarmingly large number of victims - about 500 - have developed kidney complications that can be deadly.  Chinese and German scientists analyzed the DNA of the E. coli bacteria and determined that the outbreak was caused by "an entirely new super-toxic" strain that contains several antibiotic resistant genes, according to a statement Shenzhen, China-based laboratory BGI.  It said the strain appeared to be a combination of two types of E. coli.  "This is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before," Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the World Health Organization, told the Associated Press.  The new strain has "various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing," than the many E. coli strains people naturally carry in their intestines.  Some scientists suspect the deadly E. coli might have been in manure used to fertilize vegetables.  The outbreak is already considered the third largest involving E. coli in recent world history and it may be the deadliest.

My Comments:  More have died since the onset of this outbreak and today it has been reported a super-toxic gene.  I'm not surprised that the US experienced an outbreak of measles this year, which had basically been thought to have disappeared in the US, to see super flu strains, as well as the report that 1.8 million people died from AIDS in 2009 (the 2010 report is not available yet).  These are just some of what we will see, as prophecy is fulfilled:  Luke 21:11 "Great earthquakes will be in various places, famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs from heaven."  Luke 21:31 "When you see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand."  If you aren't saved and haven't received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I invite you to visit the "How Can I Be Saved" page of this website; tomorrow could be too late.  The Bible tells us that, "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, the heavens will pass a way with a great noise, the elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth and the works in it will be burned up" II Peter 3:10.