There have been numerous reports coming out of Europe about a new strain of MRSA spreading like wildfire. It has developed among intensively farmers animals on the continent according to a new report from the Soil Association.
In the Netherlands, which was though to be eradicated of MRSA, 40% of dutch pigs and 50% of Dutch pig farmers have been found to carry farm-animal MRSA caused by hight levels of antibiotics used in intensive farming. This new strain of MRSA has developed among intensively farmed pigs, chickens, and other livestock on the Continent Farm animal MRSA has already transferred to farmers. farm workers and their families in the Netherlands, causing serious health impacts. 40% of Dutch pigs and 50% of pig farmers have been found to carry farm animal related MRSA.
In the Netherlands, farm animal MRSA has been found in 20% of pork, 21% of chicken and 3% of beef on sale to the public. It has not yet been found in the UK livestock or meat products, neither the government nor the FSA area carrying surveys to find out seeing no need for more wide scale testing.
“There is no current evidence that food-producing animals form a reservoir. Of MRSA infections in the UK.
What I have not found about this is exactly what the new strain of MRSA is and how differently it might treat a person. What kind of MRSA are they talking about? Getting boils or some kind of flesh eating disease of just indigestion, (doubtful!). I will be searching for this information.
I really hope this is a paranoid though process and not the way it will go at all.