superbug

Meat contaminated by a potentially lethal infection is being sold to consumers -- creating a public health threat that has largely flown under the the radar due to powerful industry interests and lax accountability at the federal agency in charge of ensuring food safety, according to recent studies...

Scientists say NDM-1, a new superbug from India that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics, could spread around the world, aided in part by medical tourism. Meanwhile, MRSA infections, which are antibiotic resistant, have fallen in the U.S.

I swore off pork raised in large commercial farms after reading Nicholas Kristof's deep evaluation of the use of prophylactic antibiotics in animal feed, and how it's causing an explosion of MRSA, a flesh-eating bacterial infection, in pig farm workers and the people who live nearby those factory...