Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
From the Netherlands; farmers here seems to refer to farmers with livestock, especially calves and pigs .
google translated, edited
05 August 2009
More reports of MRSA in agriculture
The RIVM ( = Dutch CDC, ed) in 2008 has received 1123 reports of MRSA bacteria in
agriculture, 330 more reports than in 2007.
This variant of the dreaded hospital bacteria is found mainly at holders of calves and pigs
and can be found in stables with excessive use of antibiotics in animals.
One third of all farmers is it infected, but the MRSA bacteria is only
dangerous for severely sick and weakened people, because it can not be
fought with antibiotics.
If antibiotics do not help, some diseases in the future might not be cured anymore RIVM fears.
http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2009/08/art000001CA15DE7D329DF8.html
google translated, edited
05 August 2009
More reports of MRSA in agriculture
The RIVM ( = Dutch CDC, ed) in 2008 has received 1123 reports of MRSA bacteria in
agriculture, 330 more reports than in 2007.
This variant of the dreaded hospital bacteria is found mainly at holders of calves and pigs
and can be found in stables with excessive use of antibiotics in animals.
One third of all farmers is it infected, but the MRSA bacteria is only
dangerous for severely sick and weakened people, because it can not be
fought with antibiotics.
If antibiotics do not help, some diseases in the future might not be cured anymore RIVM fears.
http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2009/08/art000001CA15DE7D329DF8.html