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Looking at the timeline. From what I have read, it seems like human to human transmission could have been confirmed much sooner.

• lonelappde 7y ago
  "could have" with the benefit of hindsight and ignoring communication latency. The fact is authorities don't treat every local outbreak of illness as a contagious pandemic when it's almost always food poisoning.
  • pjc50 7y ago
    In some places food poisoning gets a surprisingly thorough response, with full batch tracing of the affected food. Here's what the CDC was doing last year: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
  • ABeeSea 7y ago
    Food poisoning that results in more that one case almost always gets taken very very seriously. At least in the US.