Pat's Note: Published this morning by the publsihers of Farmers Weekly
in Holland.
One wishes they were a bit more interested in the state of Britain's
pigs.
If they don't know they can always ask Defra. Second thoughts, they
would not get the truth out of them.
The Prime Minister is going to have to make a statement very soon.
http://www.pigprogress.net/news/id1602-59602/mrsa_found_in_us_pigs.html
MRSA found in US pigs// 14 Jul 2008
University of Iowa scientists have conducted the first test of US
swine for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the
bacterium responsible for more than 18,000 US deaths.
Of the 200 pigs the team tested, 70 percent carried a strain of MRSA,
ST398, a strain that is known to affect humans.
The scientists found that almost half of 20 workers on local pig farms
carried the same strain of MRSA, suggesting a route to the wider
community. So far no one has tested MRSA patients in US hospitals to
identify whether they carry the same strain.