MRSA - The financial & social consequences
- From: "Pat Gardiner" <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:27:57 -0000
The reluctance of Defra to test Britain's pigs for MRSA has far reaching
consequences way beyond the farming and health sectors.
We don't know the full story, nobody does.
We don't know how many strains of MRSA there are or the methods of spread
for each.
We do know that MRSA spreads in hospitals and we also know there are sources
within the community of which pigs, dogs, horses etc are known to spread the
disease to humans.
The most ominous development is the American view that "locker room" MRSA is
a major cause of spread: basically, skin to skin contact or variants
associated with sport and gyms.
This has rapidly developed into an accusation that male homosexuals are both
a major source and people whose activities a method of spread. Needless to
say that has developed into a major row in the US, with predicable positions
being taken.
Skin to skin contact is not limited to male homosexual activity. It is a
part of all human interaction from sex to the shaking of hands, from the
normal mother's care of a baby or child to a visit to the dentist or
hairdresser or chiropodist. It extends into every part of human life.
To deliberately leave any doubt over any possible source of MRSA or method
of spread has far reaching consequences, not all of them obvious.
Most women in the western world now work - they need to, to pay the
mortgage. What if skin to skin contact becomes established wrongly in the
public's mind as being the primary risk? The nurseries will close, the women
will stay at home and the mortgage remain unpaid. The economy both personal
and national could collapse.
The consequences of finding pigs a major cause are frightening for the pig
industry, but the consequences of failing to find it, if they are, is
terrifying for the whole economy.
Britain has no choice but to order their government vets to test the pigs
thoroughly and make public the results immediately.
That they should be sitting on their hands waiting to be instructed to do
the job is quite intolerable. They have duty to do it.
Especially since the situation in nearby Holland has been known for years.
Pigs spread MRSA to humans. We know that. Has Defra organised some special
exemption for Britain's pigs?
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Regards
Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com
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