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[Tequila Revenge]

How about a collection of news stories you run across that promise doom and gloom (minus any political crap... PLEASE!!) that we can have fun with? Sort of in the spirit of, "if we weren't all crazy we'd all be insane."

Study: Half of supermarket meat may have staph bug

The new study found more than half the samples contained Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can make people sick. Worse, half of those contaminated samples had a form of staph that's resistant to at least three kinds of antibiotics.

"This study shows that much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with multidrug-resistant staph," Paul Keim, one of the study's authors, said in a statement. "Now we need to determine what this means in terms of risk to the consumer."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_ ... inted_meat

[Skibo]

Since people aren't dropping dead from eating meat, seems to me that it isn't much of a threat.

[Dutch Harbor PH]

That's why we cook meat.........

[Rabbitz]

Everyone of us carries Staph bugs, everyone. Mostly they are benign. Sometimes in an individual who has already compromised immunity, say due to illness (or overuse of personal cleaning products) it can become serious.

You see, we need bugs while we are healthy, they help us to fight when we are ill.

So I would say about this study:
"In other news, the sun came up today and theings covered in water are wet."
But good on them for getting the grant money to spend on the study.

[SwissParrotHeads]

How about a collection of news stories you run across that promise doom and gloom (minus any political crap... PLEASE!!) that we can have fun with? Sort of in the spirit of, "if we weren't all crazy we'd all be insane."

Study: Half of supermarket meat may have staph bug

The new study found more than half the samples contained Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can make people sick. Worse, half of those contaminated samples had a form of staph that's resistant to at least three kinds of antibiotics.

"This study shows that much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with multidrug-resistant staph," Paul Keim, one of the study's authors, said in a statement. "Now we need to determine what this means in terms of risk to the consumer."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_ ... inted_meat

Funny enough, Keim is the german word for germ or bacterium...