Pat's Note: Not a specially important or unusual report, but once
again a US one that specifically gives prominent mention to Britain's
problems with superbugs.

People abroad notice Britain's problems and they know that superbugs
have connections to livestock.

And the inevitable international investigations will target on
Britain's refusal to release the results of testing her sick pigs.

It is a short sighted policy completely out of place in the modern
world and, incidentally, not the open government we were supposed to
be getting.

But what do you expect from a country with third world standards run
by bent vets and their cronies?

http://www.wapt.com/health/17281254/detail.html

Doctors: New Superbug Antibiotic-Resistant

Several People Killed By Infection In Great Britain

POSTED: 1:57 pm CDT August 24, 2008
UPDATED: 2:14 pm CDT August 24, 2008


There was concern Saturday night over a new type of superbug.

Doctors call it C-Diff, and it's resistant to certain antibiotics.

Several people have been killed by the infection in Great Britain, and
it's a growing problem in hospitals in the U.S.  

Betsy Barrett is a mother of two. Kate just turned 4. Meg came into
the world unexpectedly early a year and a half ago.

"I was still 5 weeks early," Barrett said of Meg's birth.

Her water had broken and she was put on antibiotics to fight off
infection. Meg was born small, but healthy. But a few weeks later,
Barrett was not.

"I'd get a lot of leg cramps and stomach pain," she said.

Barrett was diagnosed with C-Diff, or clostridium defficile. It's a
dangerous intestinal superbug that causes diarrhea and a more serious
intestinal infection called colitis.

Doctors said they've been seeing a lot more of it over the last few
years.

According to a new study by University of Massachusetts researchers,
almost 300,000 people were hospitalized with C-Diff in 2005. That's
nearly twice as many as in 2000.

"It's one of those bugs we really try to keep a handle on in the
hospital," Dr. Esther Israel said.

Israel treats patients with C-Diff at Mass General Hospital for
Children.

"Most of the people who get it get it while they're being treated with
antibiotics," she said.

It's especially dangerous, she said, because it's grown resistant to
certain antibiotics. That's what happened in Barrett's case.

"I ended up being on three different courses from February to
September," Barrett said.

Health officials said the best way to fight C-Diff is to understand
how to prevent it.

"It's very important to have, as it is with any infection, to do good
hand washing," Israel said. "The alcohol-based solutions would not be
appropriate. You really need soap and water."

C-Diff can be diagnosed with a test and is treatable with some
antibiotics.

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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  and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/