Superbug poses risk for workers and consumers

A Danish study shows that a novel strain of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) may spread to humans through handling or consumption of contaminated poultry meat. When a group of researchers of Milken Institute SPH, the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Flagstaff led a study which investigated the evolution and epidemology of a novel livestock-associated MRSA strain this year, they found that the strain colonises a