Hog-farm workers carry drug-resistant bacteria

A small-scale study in North Carolina “suggests that nearly half of workers who care for animals in large industrial hog farming operations may be carrying home livestock-associated bacteria in their noses, and that this potentially harmful bacteria remains with them up to four days after exposure,” says Johns Hopkins University. “Much of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria… » Read More

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