Not sure I can sign up for the antibiotics in food escalates CA MRSA arguement but the resistance arguement has been extensively made
According to Abby Harper, one of Smith’s graduate students, there are indications that the antibiotics routinely used in pig farming – specifically tetracycline – may be the cause of the spread of MRSA. Other researchers have also noted the synchronous rise of CA-MRSA in humans in the 1990s and the simultaneous introduction of antibiotic regimens on pig farms.
The agent (of disease) may not be tetracycline itself, but the fact that pigs regularly treated with it develop an immunity to it, just like humans, and this immunity can then be transferred, along with the bacteria, to the pig’s human caretakers. If so, the routine use of antibiotics in pig farming, coupled with the indiscriminate use of those same antibiotics in human populations, may be a recipe for a pandemic to rival the 1918 Spanish Flu that swept the world, killing 50 to 100 million people before it disappeared.
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