Super Bacteria in Fertilizer Breeding More Super Bugs

21Jul09

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Sewage sludge is often used as fertilizer on the fields of factory farmers. And we’ve seen what that sort of thing has done – from food poisoning in Earthbound salad greens to the current outbreaks of swine flu. Now there’s more proof that it may be creating super bugs that human drugs can’t beat.

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Fertilizer Could Breed More Super Bugs: “(NaturalNews) Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially get into the food supply.

According to research just published in the European medical journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, that exact scenario may have already happened. Scientists have recently found antibiotic resistant super bugs in sewage sludge — and they are sounding the alarm about the danger of antibiotic resistance genes passing into the human food chain.
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(Via Natural News.)

Once these super bugs start moving around they can do more than give people deadly infections that don’t heal easy. They can also pass on their super resistance to other bacteria or bugs – creating a lot of them. More than one could imagine.

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