Antibiotic abuse - US and EU sign agreement

Pat's Note: Maryn McKenna on the move reporting on the increasing
interest in the damage being caused by the wild, greedy and
irresponsible use of antibiotics in farming by a discredited
veterinary industry.

The Task Force is the first sign of real external intervention and
investigations into just what has been going on in Britain

Maryn, quite rightly, as an American, has the right to criticise the
US - but be sure the full force of the recriminatory storm is going to
flatten Britain's hopelessly corrupt government vets and their
co-conspirators.

There are too many obvious questions they can't and won't answer.

Britain's bent vets committed the ultimate crime in any democracy -
attempting to intimidate a witness to the legislature.

When those crimes impacted human health worldwide, there will not be
any Crown Immunity. They will be handed over sooner or later.

Make sure you follow up the links. They outline some of the
implications to human health.


http://drugresistantstaph.blogspot.com/

16 NOVEMBER 2009
Antibiotic resistance: international news
Constant readers, we've often talked about MRSA and other resistant
pathogens as a global problem (cf. these posts for resistance issues
in Europe and these for resistance around the world).

But now there has been formal recognition that resistant bacteria
respect no borders. On Nov. 3, the US government and the European
Union signed an agreement to form a joint task force to investigate
and combat antibiotic resistance. From the Joint Declaration, posted
on WhiteHouse.gov:

[We therefore agree}... To establish a transatlantic task force on
urgent antimicrobial resistance issues focused on appropriate
therapeutic use of antimicrobial drugs in the medical and veterinary
communities, prevention of both healthcare- and community-associated
drug-resistant infections, and strategies for improving the pipeline
of new antimicrobial drugs, which could be better addressed by
intensified cooperation between us.

You may not have heard much about it here, but in Europe, this
declaration was big news. Here's a story from the Swedish newspaper
Arbetarbladet (Sweden currently holds the EU Presidency) and another
from the Irish Times. But while it merited barely a blink in the US
mainstream media, US nonprofits were deeply involved in the
declaration, notably the Infectious Disease Society of America and the
Pew Charitable Trusts:

"Antimicrobial resistance and the lack of new antimicrobial agents to
effectively treat resistant infections are problems that no country
can deal with alone -- they threaten the very foundation of medical
care," said Richard Whitley, MD, FIDSA, president of the Infectious
Diseases Society of America (IDSA). "Without effective antimicrobial
drugs, modern medical treatments such as operations, transplants,
intensive care, cancer treatment and care of premature babies will
become very risky if not impossible." Dr. Whitley joined with Javier
Garau, MD, president of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and
Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and Shelley A. Hearne, managing director
of the Pew Health Group in welcoming the multi-country initiative.
..."Antibiotic resistant bacteria respect no political borders, so we
must work together to combat them," Dr. Hearne said. "Resistance takes
a terrible toll on health worldwide and is measured in lives lost,
greater suffering and higher health care costs. One way that U.S.
leaders can demonstrate their commitment to solving this issue is by
immediately joining the EU in banning non-judicious antibiotic uses in
food animal production." (Pew press release)

This fresh focus on the problem of resistance will be sharpened in
Europe this week with the celebration of European Antibiotic Awareness
Day. (We should be so lucky.) More on that on Wednesday.

--
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com  and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/
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