WASHINGTON, DC: CDC tells congress MRSA not from food animals - (from a press release)
February 28, 2008 – 8:21 pmClaims that food animals, such as pigs, are increasingly the source of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in humans are greatly exaggerated, according to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a recent letter to House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and panel members Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Robin Hayes, R-N.C., the CDC said if transmission of MRSA from food animals to people occurs, it likely accounts for a very small proportion of human infections in the United States.
Studies conducted in Canada and the Netherlands found MRSA in pigs and pork producers on some farms. Citing those studies, several newspaper articles and editorials and critics of the pork industry, including the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, have attempted to link pigs, pork products and the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry with the recent rise in MRSA-related illnesses.
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