March 27, 2009
The Use of antibiotics in livestock and the possible connections to the emergence of a super bug?
You may have read, that in 2005, there were 18,000 known deaths in the US that resulted from a type of Staph bacteria, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), pronounced mer-sa. MRSA (Staph) is resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics, [...]
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MRSA: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Pigs, and Human Illness
Posted in Food Conversations Also tagged bacteria, FDA, food born illness, food safety, Fred Gerendasy, mrsa, mrsa netherlands, mrsa study, pig farmers, pigs, staph, swine, tara smith 5 Comments
