Antibiotic-Resistant Disease Affecting People and Swine

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 20, 2009 -- The antibiotic-resistant bacteria Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) is killing both people and swine in Denmark.
The bacteria has been implicated in the deaths of a number of cancer and liver disease patients. The number of infected patients jumped 50 percent last year.
Health officials stated that the bacteria is being transmitted to humans through pigs. The increased use of antibiotics in agriculture may be behind the spread of the resistant strain.

ESBLs are Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases and are actually enzymes produced by certain types of bacteria, which renders the bacteria resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat them.
ESPBLs were fist discovered in the mid-1980s. At the time they were mostly found in the Klebsiella species of bacteria, in hospital intensive care units. Until recently, only a few people were affected by this bacteria and it didn’t appear to be cause for concern.

That has now changed. According to the British Health Protection Agency (HRA), a new class of ESBL (called CTX-M enzymes) has emerged, which are now being widely detected among E. Coli bacteria. These ESBL-producing E. Coli are resistant to penicillin and cephalosporin, and are becoming more frequent in urinary tract infections.
Other species of bacteria that can now produce ESBLs include:
K. pneumoniae, K. oxytoca, Salmonella, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The problem appears worse than we think!
According to a study published October 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were close to 100,000 cases of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the United States in 2005, which led to more than 18,600 deaths.

So how can you ensure that the food you feed to yourself and family is pure and healthy?

Apart from growing it yourself, you best option is to get to know a local farmer near you, one who uses non-toxic farming methods. If you live in an urban area, there are increasing numbers of community-supported agriculture programs available that give you access to healthy, locally grown foods even if you live in the heart of the city.
If you are looking for a safer alternative to commercially raised beef please be sure to check out grass-fed beef. Grass-fed cattle are not routinely fed antibiotics. They may occasionally receive them for an infection, but that would be the rate exception, and even then they are only used for a few days.



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