NEW YORK CITY, NY - CBS- An international team of scientists says it has proof the life-threatening MRSA superbug got its resistance from farm animals that were injected with antibiotics.
SOURCE - MedDay
Researchers say that MRSA began as a basic staph infection in people and then
migrated to food animals like cows, pigs and turkeys.
There the bacteria developed a resistance to some antibiotics before migrating
back to people. Now the drug resistant bacteria is hard to treat in people.
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