On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:33:13 +0100, Pat Gardiner
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> wrote:
>Pat's Note: My email has been cut off.
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>That is another matter that will have to be investigated.
>
>Along with why they kept the fact that they were testing the pigs for
>MRSA in secret.
>
>They will now try to say that it was im****ted in meat.
>
>The 1.4 million employees of the NHS will now go ballistic.
>
>Alas we can't bring the dead back or repair the damaged.
>
>http://www.farminguk.com/index.asp?show=newsArticle&id=7505
>
>02/06/2008 11:38:50
>
> Farm-animal MRSA strain found in the UK
>
>
>Following the publication in a Sunday paper of information concerning
>the first three identified cases of farm-animal MRSA in humans in the
>UK, the Soil Association is calling on the Government to publish
>interim results of its testing for MRSA in pigs, which has been
>ongoing since the beginning of the year, and introduce a comprehensive
>testing programme for MRSA in other farm-animal species.
>
>As re****ted in The Sunday Post, the Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory
>has identified three patients in Scotland suffering from a new type of
>MRSA infection, not previously identified in the UK. The MRSA is a
>strain known as ST398 or NT-MRSA, which has been spreading rapidly
>across continental Europe and some other countries, affecting both
>farm animals and humans.
>
>The problem came to light after the Soil Association asked the
>Scottish reference laboratory to recheck one suspicious sample, which
>was mentioned in a scientific paper, but which had not been fully
>tested.
>
>Professor Giles Edwards, head of the laboratory, agreed to this
>request. He subsequently told the Soil Association about two further
>patients who had also been found to be infected by the same strain of
>MRSA.
>
>In the Netherlands and some other countries, a high pro****tion of pigs
>and other farm animals are already carriers of MRSA ST398, and there
>have been many cases of humans becoming colonised due to contact with
>animals, and then developing serious MRSA infections. Although MRSA
>ST398 was only first detected in humans in the Netherlands as recently
>as 2003, by 2007 approximately 30% of all cases of human MRSA in the
>Netherlands were ST398.
>
>In a re****t published in June last year the Soil Association warned
>that unless urgent action was taken, farm-animal MRSA would spread to
>Britain and threaten to complicate and worsen the already serious MRSA
>problem in British hospitals.
>
>Many other countries have responded to the Dutch outbreak by testing
>their own pigs and publi****ng the results as rapidly as possible:
>Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Canada have all confirmed that
>some of their pigs are MRSA carriers. However, the Government rejected
>the Soil Association's call for British pigs to be tested, indicating
>that is would not do this until ST398 was found in humans. Testing
>only began earlier this year because of an EU requirement for all
>member states to test some of their pigs for MRSA. If interim results
>are not published by the Government, no results will be available
>before mid-2009 [7].
>
>Soil Association Policy Adviser, Richard Young, said,
>"It is regrettable the Government has allowed this problem to develop,
>when action at an early stage could have nipped it in the bud. ST398
>is no more serious than existing strains of MRSA, but it is resistant
>to different antibiotics, and where it is present it will make it
>harder for doctors to select an effective drug quickly. In some cases
>this could be the difference between life and death. It is also likely
>to increase the overall number of MRSA cases in humans, because farm
>animals are kept in such large numbers on intensive farms and
>constitute a growing reservoir of this superbug worldwide."
>
>"We suspect that MRSA has now been found in British pigs. Defra must
>publish the results of testing as these become available. There can
>now be no excuse for not also initiating a comprehensive testing
>programme in the UK to establish the full extent of MRSA in British
>farm animals."
Almost word for word what you have been citing for years Pat. Looks
like you come out smelling of roses once again. Shame the farming
community on UBA sought to destroy you and the MRSA story for so long.
Shame it's probably all too late now. Unless we all go veggie we're on
the fast track to hell. Why on earth do we let them get away with it?
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