Great. More sicknesses to worry about catching at a hospital.....

I have spent almost decade on this disaster, day after day: there at the beginning, with pigs and in pig country when the horror story started.

We decided on a self-sufficient lifestyle and walked into a nightmare.

The shame is that so much emphasis was placed on the over-prescription of antibiotics to humans, when bigger dangers lay with veterinary over use.

There is little doubt that MRSA in pigs has been leaking into the hospitals for some years.

There was a nasty mutation to a porcine circovirus in Britain in 1999 which caused an epidemic that required huge quantities of antibiotics to handle the consequences.

MRSA in pigs was the result, usually the ST398 strain.

The Dutch picked up the problem about four years ago and commendably make everything they knew public.

Both circovirus and MRSA epidemics have now travelled the world along with accompanying cover-ups. It is quite a nasty situation - now coming to light in the USA.

MRSA st398, mutated circovirus and various other unpleasant zoonotic diseases have now reached American pig farms.

The people exposing the scandal in the US are to be commended.

I have extensive records available to anyone researching the link and can often answer general questions quickly and accurately.


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

I'm sorry but why does everything have to go back to pigs? I work in a hospital lab AND a hog confinement. Our confinement doesn't use antibiotics unless absolutely necessary. And most companies that buy their pork from us prefer we don't use antibiotics. Anytime we have a sick animal, we have to tag it if we use ANY antibiotics.

The reason MRSA is such a big deal is because it shows resistances are forming which means it will soon be resistant to some of the more powerful antibiotics we have available. There are 2 classes of MRSA, community aquired and hospital aquired. I see MRSA EVERY DAY, and very few are hospital aquired. We research this thoroughly at our hospital because of the concern. 60% of health care workers are colonized with MRSA, and considering MRSA is just now showing up in horses, I don't think it's fair to send everything back to pork.

In my opninion, the main reason the superbug is so prevalent now is patients coming to the hospital and DEMANDING antibiotics if they don't feel good. Not everyone is guilty of this, but a majority are (my own family included) and needs to stop. Antibiotics don't work on viruses. A cold is a virus. Enough said.

Thank you for your time.

I like pigs, pig farmers and pork, and have raised pigs and eaten our own pork so I'm certainly not having a go at individual pig farmers.

Like Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze, I have had Pancreatic Cancer for a few years, so I'm not making this public for my own benefit.

I even travelled to the US at my own expense after a Whipple operation to warn your authorities back in 2005 that things were going wrong in the UK and to be careful to protect the prairies.

I'm very aware of the distinction between CA and HA, but Pandora in the form of ST398 was out of the box some years ago, and you now have it in your pigs, pig farmers, pork and people.

Genetic fingerprinting will no doubt eventually prove the source, but in the meantime you do have to do more to avoid having MRSA ridden hospitals like Britain, Ireland and Canada. The Dutch and Danes should be copied. They test all pig and pork workers at the hospital door for MRSA and have much lower rates as a result.

I appreciate that passions are hot now in the US, but it is the pig and pork workers and their families that are at most risk from MRSA st398.

Check the Dutch research.

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

I've had MRSA now for 3.5 years. At current count I have 36 individual scars over my body. As I am writing this I have a nice big gauze bandied over my forearm with a recent outbreak healing.

I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

Here's something to ponder:

I stopped going in for antibiotics around the 28 or 29th outbreak. Whats interesting, my outbreaks began to clear up quicker, and aren't as severe.

My theory is allowing my body's natural immune response to build up instead of introduced antibiotics is helping fight a better fight against this problem.

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