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Workers in hog barns can become carriers of drug-resistant bacteria. photo: thinkstock

Hog barn workers carry drug-resistant bacteria even after they leave the farm

A small study of North Carolina hog barn workers turned up surprisingly high levels of persistent and resistant bacteria

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 23, 2014

A small-scale study of hog barn workers in North Carolina found nearly half carry livestock-associated bacteria in their noses, and that this potentially harmful bacteria remained with them up to four days after exposure. Researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health tested 22 workers over a period of two weeks during the

Dr. Leigh Rosengren, a veterinary epidemiologist, urges producers to guard against antimicrobial resistance.

Livestock

Superbugs in hospitals may also be on farms

Producers urged to practise antibiotic stewardship

By Ron Friesen July 1, 2014

Imagine a situation in which meat containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria ends up on the dinner plate of a consumer, who in turn ends up in the hospital with an infection which may not be treatable. That’s the kind of nightmare scenario Dr. Leigh Rosengren envisions when she warns livestock producers about the risk of antimicrobial resistance

Opinion

Coming clean on antibiotics

By Laura Rance-Unger May 19, 2014

Canadian health and veterinary authorities have been discussing the virtually unregulated and poorly monitored antibiotic use in farm animals since the late 1990s. Now Health Canada is starting to do something about it. In new protocols to be phased in over the next three years, producers wishing to use antibiotics considered important to human medicine

News

Antibiotics improve growth in children in developing countries

But researchers say drugs are not  ‘the most viable option’ for treating malnutrition

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 24, 2014

Farmers and drug companies have known for decades that feeding antibiotics to livestock makes animals grow bigger and faster. Now researchers say they have the same effect on the growth rates of malnourished children. New research published in the British Medical Journal concludes antibiotics contribute to better growth rates among undernourished children in low- and

A worker collecting cucumbers inside a greenhouse in La Mojonera, southeastern Spain, June 2, 2011. An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant E. coli contaminated vegetables in Europe that year, killing 17 and sickening more than 1,500 in 10 European countries. Antibiotic-resistant bugs are linked to overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and agriculture. Photo: Francisco Bonilla, Reuters

Hogs, Livestock

Producers slowly becoming aware of antimicrobial resistance

By Shannon VanRaes December 5, 2013

Their misuse has the power to render the most powerful tools in modern medicine impotent, yet in Manitoba there is more regulation around the sale of pesticides than antimicrobials used in livestock production. Mounting evidence points to an increase in antimicrobial-resistant diseases worldwide, and a research paper published recently in The Lancet calls for greater

Cases of strawberry foot rot may go unnoticed because there is not much swelling evident at first.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Strawberry foot rot is on the increase in feedlots

An infection previously mostly found in dairy cattle is showing up in some western feedlots

November 20, 2013

It has come to my attention that “strawberry foot rot” or “hairy heel wart” or “Montellaros disease,” which was once considered a dairy disease is now making its way into feedlots in Eastern Canada. The disease is potentially caused by a treponema bacteria. The infection starts at the back of the hoof on or near

Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

Curbing farm use of antibiotics heats up again

By Alex Binkley March 28, 2013

Ontario Medical Association says incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is on the rise and must be stopped

The Ontario Medical Association is calling on government to impose sweeping restrictions on non-essential farm and other uses of medicines before bacterial resistance to life-saving antibiotics threatens human health. Growing resistance to antibiotics endangers “one of the most fundamental and life-saving tools in medicine,” the association warns in a report entitled ‘When Antibiotics Stop Working.’

Livestock

Antibiotic resistance could be ‘apocalyptic scenario’

March 25, 2013

Antibiotic resistance “has the potential to undermine modern health systems,” and an “apocalyptic scenario may be looming if we don’t act now,” say scientists writing in the British Medical Journal. Current estimates suggest that antibiotic resistance is a relatively cheap problem, they write, but such estimates do not take account of the fact that antimicrobial

Livestock, Poultry

Antimicrobial resistance monitoring on the way for broiler operations

By Shannon VanRaes January 17, 2013

A rise in antimicrobial resistance has prompted officials to start monitoring chicken operations in four provinces. The Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) will begin monitoring broiler chicken operations early this year, the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a statement. The expanded surveillance project will gather data from farms in Ontario,

Livestock, News

E. coli resistance develops in the soil

By Washington State University December 1, 2012

Antibiotic-resistant E. coli will survive in the soil to recolonize in a cow’s gut through pasture, forage or bedding

Washington State University researchers have found an unlikely recipe for antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Mix cow dung and soil, and add urine infused with metabolized antibiotic. The urine will kill off normal E. coli in the dung-soil mixture. But antibiotic-resistant E. coli will survive in the soil to recolonize in a cow’s gut through pasture, forage or

Daily Network News

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B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

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