Pat's Note: You can't play the fool about MRSA in pigs.
Seen against this background Defra's refusal to release
the results of testing Britain's pigs for MRSA, if indeed they have
tested any, looks even more peverse.
"Piggy" MRSA has been found in patients in New York now.
The reasons for holding back such im****tant information must be pretty
compelling:
Shame and sheer terror.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSPAT36934720080703
Many kids carry the superbug MRSA: study
..NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many children may be carrying the
drug-resistant "superbug" MRSA in their nasal passages, unbeknownst to
anyone, research suggests. Investigators at Wa****ngton University in
St. Louis, Missouri, re****t that MRSA "is widespread among children in
our community."
Dr. Stephanie A. Fritz and colleagues obtained nasal swabs from 1,300
patients from 11 practices in the St. Louis area. The prevalence of
MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,
varied from 0 percent to 9 percent (the average was 2.6 percent),
depending on the practice.
The estimated prevalence of MRSA among children in the two-county St.
Louis area was 2.4 percent, Fritz and colleagues re****t in the journal
Pediatrics.
They found that 28 percent of the MRSA isolates were types often seen
in healthcare settings and 66 percent were the types often seen in the
community.
A significantly greater number of children found to have
"community-acquired" MRSA were black and were enrolled in Medicaid, in
comparison with children carrying healthcare-associated MRSA strains,
the investigators re****t.
Fritz and colleagues say they are currently monitoring children
identified as being exposed to MRSA and noting their progress to
infection.
SOURCE: Pediatrics, June 2008.
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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
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