Comments on: MRSA in Our Pork http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/17/mrsa-in-our-pork/ Green and Natural Parenting for Eco-Friendly Families Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Animals, Environment, Children and Risk http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/17/mrsa-in-our-pork/#comment-10595 Animals, Environment, Children and Risk Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:59:43 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3357#comment-10595 [...] The concern is partly that very young children haven’t learned good hand hygiene and so are not good at washing their hands, and also that they are more prone to complications from E.coli than adults.  But there is a counter-argument being made by some health professionals that a child’s immune system is only built if it is given enough exposure to the wider world and depriving children of this kind of contact actually harms their ability to battle a range of viruses and infections. [...] [...] The concern is partly that very young children haven’t learned good hand hygiene and so are not good at washing their hands, and also that they are more prone to complications from E.coli than adults.  But there is a counter-argument being made by some health professionals that a child’s immune system is only built if it is given enough exposure to the wider world and depriving children of this kind of contact actually harms their ability to battle a range of viruses and infections. [...]

]]> By: Pat Gardiner http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/17/mrsa-in-our-pork/#comment-10594 Pat Gardiner Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:45:09 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3357#comment-10594 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. 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. -- Regards 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 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.

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

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