We now have the long delayed admission that MRSA st398 has been found in Scottish hospitals. England will own up to the same, shortly, no doubt.
The news is now circling the globe.
There will obviously have to be a full police enquiry into a decade long cover-up into very sick pigs and reckless antibiotic use endangering the lives of adult and child.
Multiple reports can be found on this blog, and on the newsgroup uk.business.agriculture dating back years.
It has all been long known, but kept secret in a storm of criminal activity and threats to witnesses to Parliament at Westminster and the Serious Fraud Squad of the EU - OLAF
This is the scandal of the century.
Here is the BBC report.
3 November 2014 Last updated at 11:32
MRSA bug linked to livestock is found in
hospitals
The study
shows that a strain of MRSA carried by some livestock has been transmitted to
humans.
A
University of Edinburgh study has suggested that an MRSA bug in UK hospitals
can be traced back to a type of bacteria found in farm animals.
Researchers
say a drug-resistant bacteria carried by some livestock, MRSA strain
staphylococcus aureus CC398, has been found in patients.
The study
shows it has been transmitted to humans on "many occasions".
It
provides new evidence that the livestock-associated CC398 strain could spread
in hospitals.
People
and humans generally harbour distinct variants of CC398, which the team say
evolved from the same original bacteria. However, the study shows the
livestock-associated strain can be transmitted to humans.
Antibiotic resistance
CC398 from farm animals is
resistant to some common antibiotic drugs, which could make it harder to treat.
Scientists say the strain's enhanced drug resistance in livestock is likely to
be the result of widespread use of antibiotics on farms.
Hospital
and nursing home patients are at increased risk of MRSA infection, but healthy
people in the wider community can also become infected with some strains.
University
of Edinburgh scientists studied the evolution of the CC398 strain using a
complex genetic analysis technique.
It is the
first time researchers have unravelled the full genetic code of the CC398
strain from the UK and compared these with published genetic data on CC398
infections from humans and livestock around the world.
The
scientists say that CC398 has entered the UK on several occasions since the mid
1940s, though the original source of the bacteria remains unclear.
Lead
researcher Dr Melissa Ward said: "Our findings emphasise the need for
strict biosecurity practices in the food production industry, as well as
continued surveillance and infection control of MRSA in hospitals. Responsible
use of antibiotics in healthcare settings and agriculture is of utmost
importance."
