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Yesterday Jan and myself spent the afternoon down the park with three of our grandchildren. On the way home she asked me to pull into a small shopping complex, she wanted to get a few items, including some sausages for today's breakfast. After a very nice full English blow out breakfast, Jan checked out the news on her phone. Good grief she cried, supermarket X flogs sausages that could have infected thousands. 
Here's the crack, we had just scoffed a half a pack of, you guessed it, Tesco sausages. The thing is, we hardly ever shop at Tesco. The labelling says British Pork, but I'm remembering the horse meat scandal. Who knows what we are eating these days. Thems the breaks folks. 
"A leading British supermarket may unwittingly have infected thousands of people with a pig virus that causes liver cirrhosis and neurological damage, say researchers at Public Health England.
Hepatitis E (HEV) is transmitted by sausages and pork products from Europe, mainly Holland and Germany. UK pigs do not have the virus strain in question.
Scientists at PHE, a government agency, have traced the shopping habits of infected people and found that a common factor is consumption of own-brand sausages from “Supermarket X”.
PHE and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have refused to name Supermarket X but two separate sources said it was Tesco."
From The Sunday Times here https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/thousands-at-risk-of-pig-virus-from-supermarket-x-sausages-z2l0s5m0g
Here's the crack, we had just scoffed a half a pack of, you guessed it, Tesco sausages. The thing is, we hardly ever shop at Tesco. The labelling says British Pork, but I'm remembering the horse meat scandal. Who knows what we are eating these days. Thems the breaks folks. "A leading British supermarket may unwittingly have infected thousands of people with a pig virus that causes liver cirrhosis and neurological damage, say researchers at Public Health England.
Hepatitis E (HEV) is transmitted by sausages and pork products from Europe, mainly Holland and Germany. UK pigs do not have the virus strain in question.
Scientists at PHE, a government agency, have traced the shopping habits of infected people and found that a common factor is consumption of own-brand sausages from “Supermarket X”.
PHE and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have refused to name Supermarket X but two separate sources said it was Tesco."
From The Sunday Times here https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/thousands-at-risk-of-pig-virus-from-supermarket-x-sausages-z2l0s5m0g
