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: "Mathew Waehner" <waehner@gmail.com>
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: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA]
Date
: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:49:08 -0500
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:
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MRSA killed 19,000 Americans in 2005 (17,000 died of AIDS in the same
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period) and incidence is on the rise largely due to CAFOs and their
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indiscriminate use of antibiotics, without which the animals would
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probably die in mass numbers. Instead they become food for most Americans.
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ACRES USA reports further that the bacteria was found on 45% of the
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farms in Ontario, 25% of the pigs, and 20% of the farmers. Attendees at
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the 2005 International Veterinary Convention were tested for the disease
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and of the 27 positives, 23 were Americans. 81% of all Dutch hog farms
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had one or more infected pigs and that 39% of pigs at slaughter carried
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the bacteria and Dutch pig farmers had 760 times as much as regular
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patients admitted to hospitals. The greatest incidence occurred on farms
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where large amounts of antibiotics were used (duh). No one is
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systematically testing for it in the USA.
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Here's a treatment for the flesh-eating bug from, oddly, Wired magazine.
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2006/10/71925
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also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy) It's
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and:
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also: Bioregional Congress
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[permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA]
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Keith Johnson, 01/25/2008
Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA]
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Mathew Waehner, 01/25/2008
Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Honey and MRSA]
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Michael, 01/25/2008
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