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Farm Workers Carry Drug-Resistant Staph Despite Partial FDA Antibiotics Ban

Posted by Soulskill on from the that's-awfully-mean-of-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New research out of the University of North Carolina now shows factory farm workers actually carry drug-resistant staph. Europe has long ago banned the use of antibiotics in livestock, but the FDA remains behind the curve with a partial ban. Thanks to large industrial farming operations, we all remain continuously at risk as our last line of antibiotics is wasted on animals."

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  1. This is kind of fun by ZarathustraDK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Y'know, evolution being the path by which this happened, and americans being unable to blame it because that would aknowledge its existence.

    I guess it will get blamed on socialism, Obama, terrorists er something.

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  2. Re:"behind the curve" by Pseudonym+Authority · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have no understanding on bacteria, vaccination, or statistics. Please do not voice your uninformed opinion ever again.

    That said, let me explain it to you: bacteria wants to live. Bacteria will evolve to survive in places where it is not welcome. The bacteria are simple organisms, and don't like to waste space in their DNA on stupid shit just for fun. The presence of vaccines in places that they want to live is usually a problem, but they adapt to it. If the vaccines were not there, there would be no evolutionary pressure to evade the vaccines. Understand? Or do I need to break out the image macros, as stupid memes like `curolation =! causashon' is probably a better learning tool for you.

  3. And this is kind of sad by c0lo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sad, because the EU may had imposed the ban for nothing: unless they also impose a quarantine against anything/anyone coming from outside, the drug-resistant staph will get into EU (directly from US or via other routes).

    One wonders: would this staph strain they bred qualify to WMD?

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  4. Re:The web turning out to be a dream by Demonoid-Penguin · · Score: 1, Funny

    My fear: The web turning out to be a dream after all and finding myself back in back-office....blah, blah, blah

    My dream - a Slashdot not over-run by morons.... Hey!, what the fuck, where did everyone go? (and how come I am not on Slashdot anymore? (Oh wait....)