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- From: Michael <mike.brian@gmail.com>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA]
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:47:38 -0500
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I wonder if it would help a bee sting. :)
Mathew Waehner wrote:
> The Wired article doesn't mention that RAW honey is thought to have much
> stronger antibiotic effects.
>
> On 1/25/08, Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> MRSA killed 19,000 Americans in 2005 (17,000 died of AIDS in the same
>> period) and incidence is on the rise largely due to CAFOs and their
>> indiscriminate use of antibiotics, without which the animals would
>> probably die in mass numbers. Instead they become food for most Americans.
>>
>> ACRES USA reports further that the bacteria was found on 45% of the
>> farms in Ontario, 25% of the pigs, and 20% of the farmers. Attendees at
>> the 2005 International Veterinary Convention were tested for the disease
>> and of the 27 positives, 23 were Americans. 81% of all Dutch hog farms
>> had one or more infected pigs and that 39% of pigs at slaughter carried
>> the bacteria and Dutch pig farmers had 760 times as much as regular
>> patients admitted to hospitals. The greatest incidence occurred on farms
>> where large amounts of antibiotics were used (duh). No one is
>> systematically testing for it in the USA.
>>
>> Here's a treatment for the flesh-eating bug from, oddly, Wired magazine.
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2006/10/71925
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Keith Johnson
>> "Be fruitful and mulch apply."
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[permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA],
Keith Johnson, 01/25/2008
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Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA],
Mathew Waehner, 01/25/2008
- Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA], Michael, 01/25/2008
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Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA],
Mathew Waehner, 01/25/2008
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