Officials are reminding the public to remain calm and say there is still no evidence of human-to-human transmission or links with recent discoveries of dead pigs, the newspaper adds.
It's simply the human instinct to seek links and fill in the details of a plausible story to make it whole and coherent.
As the ingredients of food become ever more characterised and understood, and their links to human health established, the EFSA has a difficult problem applying a scientifically rigorous approach to health-related claims without assuming the weighty bureaucracy of a pharmaceuticals regulator.
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This requires good, old-fashioned intelligence work to gather the data, but allows those data to be interpreted in ways that human experts could never manage, because there are too many links between them for a human brain to keep track of.
Perhaps the most striking claim, however, for links between the microbiome and human health has to do with the brain.
The problems can be caused by power failures, inadvertent severing of telecommunications links, corrupted software, bad hardware or human error.
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"Links have already been made between these mechanisms and human disease, " it said.
For instance, the centre links to an e-poem called "being human" by Annie Abrahams, the word "bonjour" edges across the screen showing the rest of the poem.
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