Re: Animal disease risks to humans - MRSA

A few years ago wild deer and elk were infected in the central, northern
US. It was most likely caused from the byproducts of hunter's deer
butchered in small meat packing plants getting used to make wild game
feed which was in turn feed to wild deer and elk. Does anyone know if
this situation has changed?

Pat Gardiner <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You may remember several posts from me dealing with animal disease and the
possibility of it reaching North America from the UK in live animal
movements.

BSE or Mad Cow was one example: the US got it from Britain via Canada, but
there have been others.

A pig disease originally called PMWS reached the UK, probably from Canada,
some years ago. It mutated in England and turned into something very nasty
in 1999, killing up to 40 percent of some pig herds.

Britain thoughtfully exported it back to North America, where it has been at
epidemic proportions, first in Canada and now in the US. It kills a lot of
pigs, so naturally it was renamed as "Circovirus" or "PCVAD" to confuse the
consumers. The British veterinary authorities hid it all up, Canada and the
US did the same. Government veterinarians do not like being caught letting
disease in and out of the country - any country. They also don't want you to
know that pork from diseased pigs are reaching the food chain.

You will all have heard about the super-bug MRSA - an antibiotic resistant
nasty that kills many people in hospital.

It's a funny thing, where you have Circovirus pig disease, you also seem to
get MRSA. Quebec is a hot spot - there are others.

The Dutch, bless them, have for a long time made a connection between MRSA
and pigs and have published both sides of the Atlantic. MRSA is in pigs and
pig keepers all over mainland Europe: a serious source of human illness.

They have not yet officially made the connection with PMWS or Circovirus.
The only way you can keep Circovirus infected pigs alive for long enough to
get them into the food chain is by feeding huge quantities of antibiotics.

Britain's pig herd numbers have declined from constant epidemics: PMWS,
Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth, but they are actually using more antibiotics to
control illnesses associated with Circovirus. That creates antibiotic
resistant diseases like MRSA.

Britain government veterinarians despite "monitoring the situation" have not
tested any of their pigs for MRSA. Chickens also get MRSA, so naturally
despite having known of the risk, they have not tested those either. They
have checked cattle, which can get MRSA, although it is much less common.

Britain has not looked for something they don't want to find.

They also seem not to have told the truth during recent Avian Flu epidemics.
British government health officials have been making statements at
international conferences, most recently Toronto, that directly conflict
with the "official" government veterinary story as published in Britain. One
of the epidemics resulted in the culling of 160,000 turkeys; the most recent
less dangerous one, put a number of people into hospital. We still have not
had a believable explanation.

So what's it to North America? You, like Britain, have a massive super-bug
problem. MRSA is killing people. You also have a massive Circovirus problem.

You need to watch your government veterinarians. They come from the same
stable as the British ones, with a tendency to protect their backs and their
pensions. They do not look for what it would be inconvenient to find.

Regards
Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com.

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