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Mad Cow, Meet Irate Pig

english.ohmynews.com — recently researchers at the University of Iowa conducted a test of US swine for MRSA, the bacterium responsible for 94,360 infections and 18,650 deaths in the United States in 2005, a year in which MRSA killed more Americans than AIDs. Of the 200 pigs tested in the Iowa study, 70 percent carried a strain of MRSA, ST398, known to affect humans

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