MRSA st398 (cc398) in 40 percent German pig people

[Pat Gardiner]

Germany, like most sensible countries, admits MRSA st398 (cc398) in
their pigs - and also a very high 40 percent of people visiting pig
farms on a regular basis, but the veterinary claims of little risk to
humans are less convincing.

The people visiting, and that includes veterinarians, carry disease
from farm to farm, and home to their families.

Britain's government vets have not only decided that MRSA st398 is
harmless to humans, but have decided not to find any in British pigs.

Britain is foolish indeed to entrust the health of their children and
old people, the safety of the hospitals, to a failing corrupt
veterinary industry.

Who put Britain's government veterinarians, the people who brought the
world Mad Cow and mishandled Foot and Mouth, in charge of public
health?

Full news report via blog (mechanical translation)

Resistant bacteria in almost all pigsties
Recent studies estimate risk to humans but is very low



Berlin (DAPD). The potentially dangerous drug-resistant germ MRSA is
found in almost all pigsties and"colonized" 40 percent of people who
go there regularly. But a dangerous disease, it is very rare. These
are the results of new studies on the spread of the bacterium, which
can not be fought with conventional antibiotics, such as Professor
Thomas Blaha from the Veterinary University of Hanover on Monday said
the news agency DAPD.The findings of the research will be presented on
Tuesday (May 22) at a press conference in Berlin.
Overall, the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer
Protection before three years have been five projects commissioned as
Blaha said. The College in Hanover examined the spread of MRSA
(methicillin Staphylococcus aureus) in pig and pig breeding in
Germany, the Free University of Berlin, the presence of the pathogen
in the dust inside and outside the stables, and the Federal Institute
for Risk Assessment took on the molecular fine typing of bacterial
strains in samples of all involved experts. There are three types of
MRSA, which come into contact with human HA-MRSA is spreading in the
hospital ("hospital germ"), CA-MRSA ST398 in the environment and
animal husbandry.


The bottom line would be given all-clear, said Blaha, who heads the
epidemiology branch of the Veterinary School of Hannover. 98 to 99
percent of the tested bacteria belonged to a single bacterial strain,
namely, ST398, which was widespread in the animal populations, but in
humans is "very, very rarely causes disease." The professor explained
that although the seed was detected in 40 percent of people who are
closest to the animals in the factories, but he may die from the
gastrointestinal tract and could only in contact with open wounds are
dangerous.


One of the main findings of the studies is that the germs are not
transmitted over the air to humans, as the professor pointed out. He
confirmed a report of the NDR, that up to 60 percent of the tested
conventional farms MRSA germs were detected in the dust. Among the
organic farms compared to 25 percent. Professor Blaha explained that
the reason that organic farms operated less animal trade. It had
nothing to do with the fact that they are better shielded against the
spread of the pathogen would be....

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release and independently audit the results of testing British pigs
for MRSA, C.Diff and Hepatitis E now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/