Regular readers will recall that most continental countries report
great success in keeping MRSA out of their hospitals by screening
likely carriers such as pig and pork workers prior to their attending
for selective surgery.

A Swiss study reported some months ago cast doubt on the value of
universal screening.

I don't have all the detail yet, but it is clear that American opinion
published today in four letters seems highly critical of the Swiss
conclusions.

I have no doubt more information will be available shortly.

The significance if important to Britain. At the turn of the year, the
Prime Minister appeared on TV announcing that universal screening
would be implemented (the actual target date was changed.) What he did
not say was that selective screening was an option.

We now have hugely incomplete universal screening, when we could have
had effective selective screening earlier and at a fraction of the
cost.

We have not even bothered to release the results of testing the pig
herds.

You can't "do" science with withheld data. You can't hold the
government accountable without open government.

-- 
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com  and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/