If you have kept a track of the news about E. Coli, you might have noticed about the volume of news that are using this word. It has come up again–researchers have found that wild pigs are going to be the likely culprits behind the E. coli bacteria outbreak that killed and sickened many people. The bacteria were found in the spinach that people relished so much.

Researchers have found through genetics tests that the strain of the deadly bacteria was present in the gastrointestinal tract of a wild pig that has been discovered dead at a Salinas-area ranch. It is very significant development in light of the matter that investigators had announced two weeks earlier that they have found matched bacteria in tainted bagged spinach to three samples of cattle manure in a pasture near the field. However, it was appended that the results are not as convincing as they should have: this is where the present results hold edge–it is the first time they have found convincing evidence of how the fields became contaminated, and they are almost agreeing on this to be the real cause of the problem.

The spinach outbreak had sickened 204 people and killed three in 26 states of US, and one person was killed in Canada. However, the outbreak is believed to be over now–the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed on Tuesday with state health officials that there will probably be no more cases linked to the current outbreak. With the current results, the root cause of the outbreak is almost a certainty now. However, we will need to wait before the officials make a final statement about it–as we can well gauge that in a fortnight, the results have significantly changed, we can’t be 100% sure about anything at this juncture.