Folks, I told you Tuesday about a Congressional hearing on antibiotic resistance, featuring NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. Not much new was said, but it’s encouraging that the hearing was held at all. (Fauci testimony here, Frieden here.)
Coincidentally, constant reader Pat Gardiner of the UK alerted me to a [...]
This is a little outside our usual subject matter, but it follows nicely on the past two days’ discussion of the CBS packages on antibiotics in farming, so:
What looks like a marvelous new documentary exploring environmental damage and human illness from pesticides and other farming chemicals is coming out in France, but needs assistance to [...]
Constant readers, I hope you watched the second day of CBS News’ series on antibiotic use in farming, and how it promotes the emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections in animal and humans. I found it surprisingly hard-hitting. Here’s the video and the text version.
Most of the report explored the farm experience in Denmark, which in 1998 [...]
From the January issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the CDC (and therefore free. Must I keep urging you to read it? Go, already), here’s a roundup of bad news about bad bugs.In Canada, researchers from that country’s Public Health Agency have found a “strong correlation” between the use of ceftiofur, a third-generation cephalosporin, [...]
We’ve talked before about the shrinking number of drugs available to treat MRSA and about the challenges of getting new drugs to market. Well, it’s not just a problem in the United States.
A new report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) — that’s the CDC [...]
It’s not very likely that people will be eating much pork today — OK, maybe some pancetta in the Brussels sprouts — and that’s good, because there’s lots of news today about MRSA in pigs.
(In fact, there’s a ton of news just this week. Make it stop.)
The European Food Safety Authority has published a long-awaited, [...]
UK and EU readers can hug themselves with self-congratulation this morning (OK, admittedly, for you it’s afternoon already): It’s Antibiotic Awareness Day across the European Union, featuring a slate of public-awareness activities, public-service announcements, educational efforts, and random appearances by the charming little hedgehog above (kicking antibiotics, don’t you see). It’s all meant to convince [...]
Constant readers, we’ve often talked about MRSA and other resistant pathogens as a global problem (cf. these posts for resistance issues in Europe and these for resistance around the world).
But now there has been formal recognition that resistant bacteria respect no borders. On Nov. 3, the US government and the European Union signed an agreement [...]
Well, constant readers, didn’t expect to be gone *that* long. Many apologies. There was a good reason — actually, several: I attended a journalism meeting, and spoke at a second meeting. But most important, I received, marked up, and returned the galleys of SUPERBUG. Yes, it’s really starting to look like a book now. [...]
Let’s go back for a moment to what I think of as the “third epidemic” of MRSA: ST398 and the other strains that reside in animals and cross to humans. (In my personal taxonomy, the first and second epidemics are hospital-acquired and community-associated.)
Via Emerging Infectious Diseases, the open-access journal published by the CDC (Do I [...]
Antibiotic resistance in food — some governments pay attention
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