On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:22 +0100, Pat Gardiner
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pat.ga...@removeremovelive.co.uk> wrote:
>Pat's Note: Norway has had a small number of pigs infected for since
>2011.
>
>The only major countries failing to find MRSA st398 in pigs reman
>Britain and Ireland.
>
>But they did not look very hard and are desperately trying very hard
>to find a way of finding some without facing international
>condemnation and a public enquiry.
>
>
http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/33244/four-cases-of-mrsa-found-in-norwegian-pigs
>
>Four Cases of MRSA Found in Norwegian Pigs
>23 May 2013
>
>NORWAY - The Norwegian Veterinary Institute has identified four cases
>of MRSA (Staphylococcus aureus that are resistant to antibiotics) in
>Norwegian pigs. The country's food safety authority, the National
>Veterinary Institute and the swine industry are now considering
>measures to prevent spread of the disease...
>
>(read in full)
I have now located a Norwegian Veterinary report, in Norwegian, which
makes the human health risks clear.
You can see why Defra are having trouble owning up and finding MRSA
st398 in British pigs - the media and the NHS would be crawling all
over them.
Everyone would be DNA testing old samples and asking why British
government vets did not test British pigs properly for a disease the
Dutch admitted in their pigs a decade ago with everyone else following
soon thereafter.
Then, of course, everyone is going to be taking a very keen interest
in all the organised defamation and harassment of the writer on the
newsgroup uk.business.agriculture for the past 13 years.
MPs are going to be asking about the distribution of evidence given to
a Select Committee and the EU asking about evidence given to OLAF,
their serious fraud squad about faking of tests on pigs by British
government veterinarians and their attempted intimidation of
witnesses.
In the meantime, until Britain wakes up, I will continue to soldier
on.
http://www.vetinst.no/Nyheter/Nye-funn-av-dyre-assosiert-MRSA-hos-gris
Published: 22/05/2013 24:13 Last modified: 22/05/2013 1:55 p.m.
"...It can be transmitted from pigs to humans and is primarily an
infection problem in health care. It is therefore important to prevent
animal-associated MRSA is transmitted over the health institutions."