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Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World by Ovah on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:44AM (#13455884)
The Wiki statement that Europe has banned antibiotics for growth promotion since 2006 may be true legally, but not in practice.

In fact, Denmark has used antibiotics to prevent infections in pig farming[1] up until at least the summer of 2016[2]. As such, some farms have 88% of their pig population infected with MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)[3], and over 10,000 Danes have been infected with pig-MRSA.[4]

(all sources in Swedish) [1]http://www.expressen.se/gt/darfor-ar-det-danska-griskottet-s... [2] http://www.lantbruk.com/lantbruk/tuffare-regler-kring-antibi... [3] http://www.svt.se/nyheter/danska-bonder-kan-sprida-antibioti... [4] http://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/tusentals-danskar-smittade...

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Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World by gmrple on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:53PM (#13456206)
MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)

I just don't want anyone thinking MRSA stands for anything it doesn't.

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Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World by richardwhiuk on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:44PM (#13459824)
What?
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Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World by delackner on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:44PM (#13464687)
Myself included, many people read that to be Multiply Resistant, AKA resistant to most (all?) antibiotics.
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Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World by richardwhiuk on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:31PM (#13468815)
That's nice, but incorrect, and I suspect a backcronym formed by not knowing what it stood for...
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