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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. 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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