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(EurekAlert) A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA – methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus – has emerged in livestock in the last 50 years, probably due to widespread antibiotic use in pig farming.

The strain, called CC398, has become the dominant type of MRSA in European livestock in the past fifty years. It is also a growing cause of human MRSA infections.

The study found that CC398 has maintained its antibiotic resistance over decades in pigs and other livestock. And it is capable of rapidly adapting to human hosts while maintaining this antibiotic resistance.

The results highlight the potential threat that this strain of MRSA poses to public health. It has been associated with increasing numbers of human infections, in people who have and have not had direct contact with livestock.

“Historically high levels of antibiotic use may have led to the evolution of this highly antibiotic resistant strain of MRSA on pig farms,” said Dr Gemma Murray, a lead author of the study, previously in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine and now at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

wjfox wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:05 pm WHO monkeypox emergency committee to reconvene due to ‘evolving situation’

June 29, 2022 3:52 PM GMT+1

The World Health Organization will reconvene an emergency committee on monkeypox due to the "evolving situation," Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday—this after the organization declared Saturday that the virus wasn't an international public health emergency "at present."

The committee "advised that I should reconvene them quickly based on the evolving situation, which I will do," Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press availability, adding that the virus is potentially poised to "move into high-risk groups including children, the immunocompromised, and pregnant women."

"We are starting to see this with several children already infected," he said.

The WHO did not immediately respond to an email inquiry regarding when the committee might meet.

Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the committee on Saturday acknowledged the situation should be "closely monitored," and the decision not to declare an emergency be "reviewed after a few weeks," noting the global outbreak's "emergency nature" and the "intense response efforts" required to control it.

https://fortune.com/2022/06/29/monkeypo ... situation/

erowind wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:45 am https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/health/c ... index.html

CDC activates Emergency Operations Center for monkeypox, U.S. to deploy nearly 300,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to fight outbreak

This is good news, we already have a vaccine for this virus that works. Assuming the government can deploy vaccines and track and trace properly this doesn't have to turn into the next disaster. I'm both hopeful and concerned, hopeful that the initial burst of institutional action will be enough to curtail monkeypox's spread, and concerned that if it isn't, our institutions haven't learned anything from covid in the case of a prolonged pandemic.

Time_Traveller wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:10 pm

wjfox wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:05 pm WHO monkeypox emergency committee to reconvene due to ‘evolving situation’

June 29, 2022 3:52 PM GMT+1

The World Health Organization will reconvene an emergency committee on monkeypox due to the "evolving situation," Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday—this after the organization declared Saturday that the virus wasn't an international public health emergency "at present."

The committee "advised that I should reconvene them quickly based on the evolving situation, which I will do," Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press availability, adding that the virus is potentially poised to "move into high-risk groups including children, the immunocompromised, and pregnant women."

"We are starting to see this with several children already infected," he said.

The WHO did not immediately respond to an email inquiry regarding when the committee might meet.

Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the committee on Saturday acknowledged the situation should be "closely monitored," and the decision not to declare an emergency be "reviewed after a few weeks," noting the global outbreak's "emergency nature" and the "intense response efforts" required to control it.

https://fortune.com/2022/06/29/monkeypo ... situation/

I just hope this is not another COVID-19 but it is strange that it originally in the LGBTQ community and now could move to non-LGBTQ.