Scientists have been increasingly worried about antibiotic resistance in recent years, and experts last year warned of a 'hidden pandemic' following the COVID-19 crisis.
A highly antibiotic resistant strain of MRSA that arose in pigs thanks to farming practices can jump to humans, scientists say.
Scientists have been increasingly worried about antibiotic resistance in recent years, and experts last year warned of aA new study found that the CC398 strain has maintained its antibiotic resistance over decades in pigs and other livestock and is capable of rapidly adapting to human hosts while maintaining that resistance.
It has been associated with increasing numbers of human infections, in people who have and have not had direct contact with livestock. "Understanding the emergence and success of CC398 in European livestock - and its capacity to infect humans - is vitally important in managing the risk it poses to public health," said Dr Lucy Weinert in the University of Cambridge's Department of Veterinary Medicine, senior author of the paper.
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