The government are currently congratulating themselves on the
improvement in MRSA rates.

 

So the crisis is over?

 

Quite aside from the Conservatives and Liberals tearing the figures
apart, this in no way impacts upon MRSA in pigs and the dangers. The
devil, as always, is in the detail.

 

This from our local hospital today:

 

“"The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital reported just one case
of the superbug, compared to 10 in the same period last year…

Nick Coveney, director of nursing and patient services at the JPUH,
said: “Our performance between April and June 2008 is an outstanding
achievement, our best ever, and since March 23 there have been no
hospital attributable cases of MRSA bacteraemia."”

 

So, no “hospital attributable” cases since March. On the assumption
that the figures are accurate and properly presented, that’s good.

 

But there is nothing about cases coming in from outside the hospital
system. They do not comment and that is disturbing.

 

The reservoir of zoonotic illness in pigs being treated by massive
quantities of antibiotics remains.  True there are less pigs now, but
they seem to be getting even more antibiotics per pig, if animal
rights and the Soil Association are right.

 

Nothing has changed. Indeed, further MRSA mutations may emerge from
this pool of disease at any time, quite aside from the possibility of
the existing MRSA ST398 slipping past the defences.

 

The costs of keeping the hospital defences so high are massive.

 

Then we have C.Diff. 

 

C.Diff rates have almost doubled in the last two years, with Scotland
being especially badly hit. The C.Diff stain that causes most of the
deaths (027) has been found in pigs too.

 

There are other human illnesses that may well have their origins in
the soup of porcine illness that has plagued Britain for the past nine
years. Circoviruses are dangerous. They have been a number of
disturbing epidemics here and abroad that could well have originated
in PMWS – Circovirus hit pig herds.

 

So, whilst I’m pleased that whatever the argument about the figures,
there does seem to have been some improvement in hospital acquired
MRSA in Britain’s hospitals, it is not a time to be complacency.

 

Britain and the world are still in danger from Britain’s corrupt State
Veterinary Service covering up animal disease epidemics. 

 

They have done it for nine years under the eyes of a trusting world. 

 

They will continue to do it until investigated, caught, sacked and
prosecuted under the criminal law. Changing the name again will not
do.

 

The fight to get a real investigation into their dangerous cover-ups
goes on.

-- 
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/