MRSA Bug Discovered in Meat and Livestock
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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NEW research has added to evidence that a bacteria that causes gastrointestinal disease in farm animals may be responsible for Crohn&#39;s disease in humans.
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Researchers claim to have  found a way to make MRSA vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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School lunchrooms across Maryland and Virginia received beef that has been recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, education officials confirmed yesterday.
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An investigation is under way to discover how a banned antibotic is found in organic chicken processed in NI.
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LONDON - A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could also be responsible for Crohnâs disease, researchers said on Friday.
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Government vets are checking other livestock after finding bluetongue disease in a second cow on a Suffolk farm.
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A person could consume 800 pounds of meat in a single day from animals that ate feed made with tainted pet food before having any health effects from the toxins in that pet food, government scientists said yesterday.
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Indonesian authorities have confirmed that anthrax cause the deaths of six patients who had eaten the meat from a sick goat. 300,000 vaccines have been distributed as a measure to stop the spread of the disease.
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Test results today showed foot and mouth disease was present in livestock when the UK was declared disease free earlier this month.
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Vets are investigating a suspected case of foot-and-mouth at an agricultural centre in Lanarkshire.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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A strain of MRSA that has never previously caused deaths in hospitals claims two lives, say health experts.
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A herd of cattle has tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, the seventh case in Britain since an outbreak began in August, the agriculture ministry confirmed late Monday.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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"The utmost priority is to cull the animals to control disease and to put movement control around so that reduces the risk of any further spread"  Authorities confirmed a new foot-and-mouth outbreak on the outskirts of London on Wednesday, just days after the government lifted livestock restrictions following the appearance of the devastating disease last month.The highly contagious disease was found in cattle grazing in Surrey, a county that borders London, and close to a laboratory that was linked to the August outbreak. The discovery created panic in farming communities that lost millions last month.'I'm really worried because I've got loads of pigs, a few cattle and horses, and we were getting the pigs ready for slaughter tomorrow,' said Andrew Parsons, a Surrey farmer. Read more
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11/11/2004 - The US Department of Agriculture&#39;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service yesterday confirmed the presence of the countryâs first case of soybean rust, found on soybean leaf samples taken from two plots in Louisiana.