MRSA and pigs - Boston - How to stop the superbugs
This important investigative newspaper, winner of son many Pulitzer
Prizes, now owned by the New York Times speaks on MRSA in farm
animals.
This is the famed editorial today, the day after Independence Day and
thus carrying the imprimatur of the Editor himself.
This stands against the confused lies of Britain's corrupt and
world-dangerous government veterinarians.
The children die whilst Britain's vets lie.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/07/05/how_to_stop_superbugs/
How to stop superbugs
July 5, 2008
FOR ALL the breakthroughs medicine has achieved in treating cancer and
heart disease, none has saved as many lives as the last century's
discovery of antibiotics to treat infectious diseases. That is why
physicians are so concerned about the emergence of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Congress now has an opportunity to
limit one cause of resistance: the overuse of antibiotics in poultry
and livestock.
Farmers use the drugs not just to treat sick animals, but on a much
wider scale to prevent diseases in the first place and, worst of all,
to help speed up the fattening of livestock. Inevitably, this leads to
breeding bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. There is recent
evidence that farmers' use of antibiotics might be a factor in the
spread of a particularly lethal bug, methicillin-resistant
staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MRSA
killed more Americans than AIDS in 2005. For the most part, MRSA is
spread within hospitals and nursing homes, though there have also been
outbreaks in prisons, schools, and on sports teams. A recent study by
University of Iowa researchers confirmed what Canadian and European
scientists had discovered: the existence of the same MRSA strain among
pigs and the farm workers tending the animals.....
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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com
date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:12:59 +0100
author: Pat Gardiner
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