Boston media call for MRSA to be tracked on farms

Link: Health hazard on the farm - The Boston Globe.

A HARD-TO-TREAT bacterial infection that kills more Americans than AIDS was once limited to hospitals and nursing homes. But this staph infection is becomingly increasingly common in prisons, schools, and on sports teams. Now Canadian researchers have found methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, among pigs and workers on Canadian pig farms. Congress should insist that federal regulators develop a surveillance system to track the incidence of MSRA not just in healthcare facilities but on farms and other settings as well.