Nancy IT IS A HOAX --just found it in the archive on the website that
checks this stuff---
http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa022300a.htm?
rnk=r&terms=bacteria+in+bananas
You can check these things out before forwarding them at
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
>I hope this is not one of those scam articles, it sounds like the truth. If
>it isn't forgive me please. Nancy B
You ARE forgiven--- but next time *everyone* please check FIRST ! :-)
>
>> Several shipments of bananas from Costa Rica have been infected
>> with necrotizing fasciitis, otherwise known as flesh eating bacteria.
>> Recently this disease has decimated the monkey population in Costa Rica.
>> We are now just learning that the disease has been able to graft itself
>> to
>> the skin of fruits in the region, most notably the Banana which is Costa
>> Rica's largest export. Until this finding scientist were not sure how
>> the
>> infection was being transmitted.
Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 81/70/55
Oxford, Ohio
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