The number one trending search term on Yahoo this morning was for “deadly cucumbers.” At first I thought hat would be a joke. What could possibly be deadly about cucumbers? If you buy them at the sto and scrub them when you get home, there should not be anything poisonous about a cucumber that you slice up and put on a salad. I do it all the time.

Then I saw another headline about cucumbers have killed 16 people and made more than 1,150 people sick in at least eight European nations. The worst hit was Germany, followed by Sweden. There have not been any cases reported in the U.S.

Many people are looking suspiciously at the farms in Spain who exported the cucumbers. But evidently tests by health officials at the various farms in Spain have not revealed any contamination there. So it is still a mystery about where the contamination occurred and therefore they do not know how to stop it.