Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-2013
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacterial infection and is increasingly found to be resistant to antibiotic therapy. A newly described type of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus carried by farm animals, Livestock Associated MRSA (LA-MRSA), is now causing infections in humans with and without direct livestock contact. A reduction in the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in feed would likely reduce the capacity of industrial animal agriculture to continue to create, disseminate, and perpetuate a large reservoir of LA-MRSA on a global scale, but more fundamental changes in the way animals are raised for food may be necessary forestall a "post-antibiotic age."
Recommended Citation
The Humane Society of the United States, "An HSUS Report: Industrial Farm Animal Production and Livestock Associated MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus)" (2013). Impact of Animal Agriculture. 5.
https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/hsus_reps_environment_and_human_health/5
