Stop yourself and focus on the fact that you chose salmon and peas for dinner and ate two helpings of mashed potatoes -- compared with the cheeseburger and French fries you would have eaten two years ago.
Genetic markers for the bacterium were sent to America and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed in July that the same form of Candidatus had been found in potatoes from two fields in Texas that were exhibiting zebra-chip symptoms.