On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:39:42 +0100, Pat Gardiner
<pat.gardiner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Pat's Note: This is an im****tant article. The vet run site is the
>world leader, run from Britain.
>
>It is a dead pan re****t, but the inference that the MRSA came from
>im****ted Dutch ****k is highly disturbing.
>
>The Soil Association, in currying favour with Defra's bent vets, by
>circulating rubbish like this could well pay a heavy price.
>
>The Dutch and the Danes have shown remarkable restraint in handling
>British ****cine xenophobia over many years, but antagonising them
>without just cause is foolish in the extreme.
>
>If they think they are going to encourage British ****k consumption by
>slagging off the Dutch, they need their management replaced.
>
>It probably will be. If they are quoted accurately, they are screwing
>up a good case in trying to promote discedited Defra scams.
>
>Dutch hospitals are clear of MRSA, ours are riddled. There is no need
>to say more. Public opinion will be on the move soon.
>
>http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/18103/mrsa-variants-entrance-into-food-chain-causes-fear
>
>Tuesday, June 03, 2008
>
>MRSA Variant's Entrance into Food Chain Causes Fear
>
>UK - The British are, for the first time, infected by an animal
>variant of MRSA, also known as the hospital superbug, known to infect
>more than 4,000 patients annually.
>
>According to The Independent, scientists revealed yesterday that three
>patients in separate hospitals were infected with the ST398 strain,
>which is found in factory-farmed pigs in the Netherlands. None of the
>humans had a close association with farm animals, raising the
>possibility that the superbug has entered the food chain.
>
>Most cases of the ST398 strain have been spread to people in close
>contact with animals such as farmers, vets and abattoir workers, but
>cooks may be infected if bacteria on their hands entered a cut or a
>wound.
>
>MRSA has been found in pigs in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and
>Germany and in other farm animals such as chickens and cattle. The
>strain – which has caused skin infections and rare heart and bone
>problems in humans – is believed to have spread among pigs that were
>fed antibiotics to spur growth and protect them from disease. A survey
>by the Dutch authorities in 2006 found traces of the bug in 20 per
>cent of ****k products, 21 per cent of chicken meat and 3 per cent of
>beef.
>
>No cases have been found in UK livestock but the Soil Association
>called for Britain to start testing meat because two-thirds of
>Britain's ****k is im****ted from Holland. Professor Richard James, of
>the Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections at Nottingham
>University, backed the call. "It is a concern. We need people testing
>****k to see if it's there," he said.
>
>The Soil Association called on the Department for Environment, Food
>and Rural Affairs to publish interim results of its testing for MRSA
>in pigs. "We suspect that MRSA has now been found in British pigs,"
>said the policy adviser, Richard Young.
>
>"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, that could be the difference between life and death."
It's obviously in British Animals which is why they are so coy about
testing for it. This in itself should be a criminal offence.
Well done to The Soil Association.
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