Alarm over “pig MRSA” — but not in the US | Wired Science | Wired.com.
t was also covered by the Norwegian farm publication Norsk Landbruk, which picked apart the statistics in the DANMAP report to show that Denmark’s rate of MRSA in pigs was 4x greater than an EU-wide estimate from just one year earlier. To make clear what they consider the risk, DR tracked down three farm workers who acquired MRSA ST398 at work — including one who then passed the bacterium to her year-old son. This burst of news and reaction from Denmark makes it clear — as though it weren’t already — that there are places in the world which take the emergence of MRSA in farm animals, as a result of farm antibiotic use, to be a very serious issue. Surely it’s time for the US to take this seriously as well.
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