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seattlepi.nwsource.com Federal food safety and public health agencies are being urged to begin checking meat sold across the country for the presence of MRSA, a potentially fatal bacteria. Scientists have found the infection in U.S. pigs and farmworkers.

MRSA variant has entered food chain Posted by kandylini on June 11, 2008 Thanks, BigAgra! Source: Martin Hickman, The Independent. British people have been infected for the first time by an animal variant of MRSA, the hospital superbug that infects more than 4,000 patients a year.