Pat's Note: Although, I'm sure they would want more money, the Dutch
don't seem to be suffering unduly from admitting they had MRSA in
their pigs and pig people, years ago.

Their scientists even flew to the US and warned the Americans and the
world of what they had discovered, before they were even peer
reviewed.

They took sensible precautions in good time, including telling the
truth promptly and moving on to protect the people and the hospitals.

You can find all this in the archives of the newsgroup
uk.business.agriculture fully searchable through Google Groups.

The Dutch have even been buying up Britain's beleaguered pig
industry.

Who screwed up in Britain?

Britain's bent government vets. That's who.

http://www.pigprogress.net/home/id1602-60905/dutch_pigmeat_prices_highest_in_months...

Dutch pigmeat prices highest in months// 22 Jul 2008

Prices for pigs in the Netherlands have reached the highest quotes in
months – and further rises, even record-breaking, are thought to be
likely.

Pat's Note; The cover story for the purge at BPEX and the
re-establishment of government control.

The NFU will be untaking the same process in respect of the NPA.

Then I presume they will settle down to getting rid of the rump of the
SVS and doing something about Britain's sick pigs and associated human
disease.

Too long, too late, too crude and too slow.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/743620?UserKey=0

Services to be centralised under new business structure
Levy regime to make savings of £3.5m a year

By jOE WATSON

Published: 19/07/2008

BritainÂ’s new agricultural levy regime has agreed the business
structure under which it will operate and generate £3.5million in
annual savings.

Finance, IT, levy collection, human resources, market intelligence,
business and corporate services and communications will all be
centralised at the Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board.

Pat's Note: They are right, the statistics are highly misleading in
the direction of understating the problem.

C.Diff is only recorded on patients over 65. Many infected are younger
than that.

MRSA suffers from similar distortions. Canadians are complaining about
exactly the same problems. They are openly calling them cover-ups and
are harassing their politicians fiercely on the issue.

The problem is far bigger than admitted in Britain and there is no
clear evidence that things are improving. For C.Diff they are
acknowledged as getting worse in the UK.

However, there are signs that finally the point is sinking in that
deep cleans however desirable are not the answer and that screening on
entry to hospital is the answer.

They could have done what the Dutch did four years ago and put
screening of pig and pork workers at the head of the queue. Dutch
hospitals have few of the problems despite their pigs having PMWS and
MRSA.

It would have saved many lives and released huge sums for using
elsewhere in the NHS.

Pat's Note:

"We are particularly concerned about the link with animal health."

We already have it. It is called Bent Vets Disease.

It merely manifests itself in PMWS, CSF, FMD, Avian Flu, Bovine TB
plus MRSA and C.Diff. and the many other continuous stream of
disasters in animal and now human health.

The Prime Minister will eventually be forced by the EU to put Special
Branch into Defra. It is probably imminent. That's why nobody dares to
release the results of testing the pigs for MRSA.

The NPA and BPEX have removed their claims that British pugs are MRSA
Free from their web sites.

The irony is that the evidence the writer gave to Parliament in 2000
is sitting in the Library of the House of Lords, the only people to
read it were seemingly the civil service and the lobbyists here on
uk.business.agriculture, who circulated it amongst themselves possibly
illegally.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2437908/Disease-pandemic...

Disease pandemic 'inevitable' in Britian warns House of Lords

Pat's Note: I've never been that convinced that live exports are as
important as is frequently portrayed. Anyway, grass fed veal is far
superior in my taste to beef.

Most of Britain's live exports of cattle, sheep and pigs have been
illegal under EU rules for years.

It's yet another case of the majority of farmers being messed about to
line the pockets of the few: the corrupt State Veterinary Services,
its cronies and their associated PR industry.

PR in livestock farming has become the practice of lying though the
teeth for a cut and a gong.

If you want the truth you have to go outside farming to get it.

http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2008/07/22/131215/bovine-tb-outbreak-could...

Bovine TB outbreak could give rise to export ban

22 July 2008

Pat's Note: At least the EU have not gone so far as that famous
Americana company that decided to rename PMWS "for PR reasons."

However, Google Alerts is having trouble coping with diseases that are
basically the same, similar or close relatives. Not even the experts
are really sure half the time. That is even without the ability of
Circoviruses to mask CSF and FMD

However, I will struggle on and continue to use PMWS - Circovirus as a
blanket term. We have all got the point that a disease described as
PMWS in different places and different times may well be a mutated
form.

It was just such a mutation that took place in England in 1999 and has
soaked up antibiotics ever since. Not to treat the circoviruses but to
treat other antibiotic treatable diseases attracted to sick pigs and
thereby to get the pigs into the food chain.

Sick pigs and massive quantities of antibiotics over very long periods
is the ideal test tube to produce human illness, and it did.

Anyway here is the EU on the subject.

http://www.pcvd.org/documents/2008_07_PCVD_PR.pdf

Pat's Note; Although I have always been pretty certain that some of
the Americna strains of MRSA came from MRSA in Britain's pigs, C.Diff
has posed different problems.

It is mainly the refusal of Defra to test the pigs that makes me
suspicious. What are they hiding?

The New Yorks Sun seems to link their growning C.Diff epidemic to
Britain claiming it is the same strain. Canada also has problems and
we do know that the piggy strain of MRSA has crossed the border into
New York State.

Too many co-incidences, too many sick pigs for too long, too many
lies, too many secrets, too many bent vets too.

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/medical-benchmarking-is-deadly/82256/

Pat's Note. How intelligent.!

Let's ration antibiotics to humans and continue to allow vets to
prescribe them to Britain's sick pigs in order to keep them alive long
enough to get them into the food chain.

We can't even force Britain's corrupt state veterinarians to tell us
whether the pigs do or do not have MRSA.

We know by their actions that the pigs must have MRSA and they are now
terrified of collecting long jail sentences.

Methinks somebody has had their priorities firmly fixed on backhanders
rather than the health of Britain's children.

Stil,l they will have to answer for their crimes.

The row over all this will be one of the most spectacular ever seen.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/health/Antibiotics-crackdown-in-war-on.4306225...

Antibiotics crackdown in war on superbugs

20 July 2008

By Kate Foster

MEDICINES for hospital patients are to be rationed under radical new
plans to halt the spread of killer superbugs.

Cheap clean energy for everyone. Supressed by Governments & oil companies
alike. The solution to 90%% of our problems.

Pat's Note: At first glance, this is just another sad story of a kid
lost to MRSA, but it is a "cut above" with lots of contextual
information, and many good reasons why the present refusal to tell us
if British pigs are infected with MRSA is potentially disastrous for
Britan and its livestock farming.

The performance of Defra has been so extraordinary on the issue, that
I fear the worst. And the worst is not getting any better.

Nothing is going to "turn up" to save the day.

Except truth perhaps.

http://www.recorderonline.com/news/strep_37114___article.html/lying_thought.html

Health: Lying in wait

Hospital-borne infections afflict 2M Americans yearly
July 18, 2008 - 10:47PM
BY COURTNEY PERKES
FREEDOM NEWS SERVICE

Carole Moss thought her 15-year-old son was sick with a bad case of
strep throat or the flu.