We start what will be a busy week for all those determined to get to the truth behind Britain's sick pigs and the increasing dangers to humans.
The article was from Arizona yesterday.
Veterinarians still claim Britain's pigs do not have MRSA st398.
This, will of course, be exposed in due course for a long and sustained cover-up with associated serious criminal activity.
The article suggests the mechanism by which its existence in British livestock may be proved and dated with sequencing and a phylogenetic tree.
Then what do we do?
What do we do with the pigs, the carrying vets and the victims?
Be sure to read the whole article here
Drug-Resistant Staph Infections in Europe Could Mark Start of a New Epidemic
By Robin Lloyd | October 16, 2011 |
Drug-Resistant Staph Infections in Europe Could Mark Start of a New
Epidemic
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona—A relatively new type of drug-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus could represent the world’s next bacterial
epidemic, an environmental health expert said here today at a
conference for science writers.
The superbug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
strain 398, or MRSA ST398, was first identified in an infant in the
Netherlands in 1994 and traced back to her family’s pigs. Now,
researchers are starting to see more serious infections and some of
the cases reveal no direct link to livestock, said Lance B. Price,
director of The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), in
Flagstaff.
“The rate of human [ST398] infections is going up in Denmark and the
Netherlands,” Price said. “We are just looking at the beginning of an
epidemic.” Price made his comments during a presentation at the 49th
annual New Horizons in Science meeting, organized by the Council for
the Advancement of Science Writing.
The mechanism for transmission in these newer ST398 cases currently is
unknown. Researchers are considering various explanations including
human-to-human exposure, contaminated meat or changes in the organism
that make it spread more easily, Price said. Already, ST398 was
recently found in about half of the pigs and farmers tested in
Iowa....
