A talk given at the University of Birmingham Open Day 10 Sept 2011

Further information on the topics covered in this talk can be found here:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1106483 (source of figures illustrating epidemiology of outbreak)
https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/wiki
http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1107643
http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/staff/mpallen.html
http://carlzimmer.com/books/microcosm/index.html
http://twitter.com/#!/mjpallen
http://twitter.com/#!/pathogenomenick