Reply #8: Wild pigs didn't "start" it. They were just the vector for transmission.

[kestrel91316]

The cattle operation up the road is undoubtably at fault, because this bug is harbored by cattle who themselves are not sickened by it. They just serve as an asymptomatic source in the environment. I suspect the wild pigs did what pigs will do and ingested some cattle manure while scrounging around, and then the E. coli replicated in the pigs and they pooped it out into the spinach field.

They need to get those cattle cleaned up and quit worrying about the damned pigs.