Industrial Farm Workers Carry Drug-Resistant Bacteria Associated With Livestock

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

The noses of industrial livestock workers in North Carolina contained drug-resistant bacteria - livestock-associated Staph - while the noses of antibiotic-free livestock workers did not, according to a new paper.  Workers were not experiencing Staph infections at the time of the study. read more

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