New super bug ?

[hemet dennis]

I saw something about women getting bladder infections from a super bug found in store bought chickens.

 

[cassie]

How?

 

[hemet dennis]

How?

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/superbug-found-chicken-16758736

 

[Mattemma]

Ah this must be the recent super bug chicken news my neighbor was talking about while we traded eggs for veggies. I was going to go buy some roasted chicken(oven is broke),but I am thinking I will pass.

It is bound to happen given the CAFO conditions. I keep telling the kids to let me kill a few of our clean hens.

 

[redhen]

This isn't good..

 

[ChickenPeep]

I heard on the news that the chicken company responsible for it claimed that "The infections weren't from the chickens".

 

[mom'sfolly]

There is a very simple solution for this and other antibiotic resistant strains...stop feeding healthy animals antibiotics. Don't let cattle raisers do it to help put weight on the cows, don't allow chicken producers to use them, stop them entirely unless the animal is sick.

E. coli in chickens, MRSA in pigs, E. coli in cows...who knows what else is lurking out there.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/23/mrsa-in-pigs-and-pig-farmers/

 

[redhen]

Darn...if I liked veggies more I might consider going vegetarian ..

 

[Bunnylady]

While we're getting excited about things, did you know that you can get MRSA from petting your horse?


http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=13576

 

[GardenerGal]

Drink lots of unsweetened cranberry juice, you chicken-eating women!
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Seriously, I believe that the Big Poultry and Big Meat industries do overuse antibiotics to the point where they are creating super bugs, which then get into the environment. However, I don't think there is a direct link between eating chicken and getting bladder infections.
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Reason:
1. Thoroughly cooking chicken and meat destroys E. coli. And, the e-coli would have been in the chicken's gut and cloaca, which are removed at the processing plant. If there is E. coli ON the raw chicken, it more probably came from the hands of a human being who did not wash his/her hands after using the toilet. E. coli is found in the human gut.

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2. Most women who get bladder infections, do so because when they wipe after "going," they tend to wipe from back to front.
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How does that cause a bladder infection? Because when you wipe from back to front, you can be bringing fecal material from your rear to your urethra (the "tube" that leads to the bladder in both women and men). Fecal material contains E. coli -- whatever strains of it that are in your gut, will end up in your poop. If you wipe poop forward into your urethra -- voila! -- you get E. coli in your urethra and it can travel up the tube and into your bladder, and you can get an infection there.
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Men don't tend to get bladder infections because their urethras are conveniently located far away from their bodies, so poop doesn't usually get into it.

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Women can avoid problems with their bladder by wiping from FRONT to BACK. It's that simple.
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Happy to provide this Public Service Announcement (teehee).

But seriously, I do believe that antibiotics are far too frequently and vastly overused and abused, both by the meat/poultry industries, individuals, and even in the medical field. It can't bode well for the long run.