Bedbugs and Store Meat May Carry Deadly Drug-Resistant Bacteria

(Bloomberg) Bedbugs and grocery-store meat may carry deadly drug-resistant bacteria, according to two studies published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The staph germ methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, was found in the bugs, Canadian scientists said in a report. Human handlers may contaminate meat, Wayne State University researchers wrote in a separate study. The CDC released the findings today and will publish them in its June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Bedbugs, wingless insects that feed on blood of sleeping animals, invaded stores of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) and Victoria’s Secret in New York City last year as well as hotels, offices and the Metropolitan Opera House. Invasive MRSA, typically acquired in hospitals, sickens about 90,000 people a year in the U.S. and kills about 15,000, according to the CDC.

“Bedbug carriage of MRSA, and the portal of entry provided through feeding, suggests a plausible potential mechanism for passive transmission,” according to the study led by Marc Romney, a medical microbiologist at Providence Health Care in Vancouver. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-11/bedbugs-and-store-meat-may-carry-deadly-drug-resistant-bacteria.html

What do these three have in common? :shrug:

What other kind of meat is there? Unless you're buying a whole side of beef directly from a farmer.

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I'm fine except for the deadly drug resistant bacteria in me.

It seems to have no effect.

You have eaten meat or bed bugs all your life?

Already met up with one of these disgusting critters in a motel room in York, Pa. Fortunately, we saw it after one night spent in the bed it was crawling on. We checked out immediately and even though we informed the management, they filled our room with another poor schmuck within hours after we checked out. Thank God there were no "hitchhikers" and they did not infest our home. They are beyond gross!