<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for What must the ‘Rural Americans for Hillary’ think of this?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Erik Hoffner http://www.grist.org/article/hillary-clinton-frets-publicly-about-cafos/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:58:21 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/hillary-clinton-frets-publicly-about-cafos/1 hog diseases

You see this story, Tom? Another reason why Hill needs to look closely at CAFOs. From Newfarm.org:

Hog-based MRSA infection spreading to farmers in Europe, Canada

A new study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infectious Diseases links a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), once found only in pigs, to more than 20 percent of all human MRSA infections in the Netherlands.

The resistant strain--NT-MRSA--emerged in the Netherlands in 2003 and increased steadily until, by 2006, it accounted for more than one out of five human MRSA infections, many of them in either pig farmers or cattle farmers. The cases clustered in regions of the country with high densities of pig and cattle farms. The new strain has high rates of hospitalization, suggesting that it causes severe disease.

Despite these studies and others from Europe dating back to 2005, the United States does not systematically test pigs, cattle or other food animals for MRSA. As a result, the U.S. public health establishment does not know whether the use of antibiotics in food animals in the United States is contributing to the reported surge of MRSA cases.

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You see this story, Tom? Another reason why Hill needs to look closely at CAFOs. From Newfarm.org:

Hog-based MRSA infection spreading to farmers in Europe, Canada

A new study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infectious Diseases links a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), once found only in pigs, to more than 20 percent of all human MRSA infections in the Netherlands.

The resistant strain--NT-MRSA--emerged in the Netherlands in 2003 and increased steadily until, by 2006, it accounted for more than one out of five human MRSA infections, many of them in either pig farmers or cattle farmers. The cases clustered in regions of the country with high densities of pig and cattle farms. The new strain has high rates of hospitalization, suggesting that it causes severe disease.

Despite these studies and others from Europe dating back to 2005, the United States does not systematically test pigs, cattle or other food animals for MRSA. As a result, the U.S. public health establishment does not know whether the use of antibiotics in food animals in the United States is contributing to the reported surge of MRSA cases.

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