Kentucky Derby food safety continued, what sorts of food-borne illnesses do horses carry?
Fur, Farm, and Fork,
Wikipedia commons, you had more horse feces images than I knew I needed. Thank you.I haven’t ridden in years, but if the “arena…
Wikipedia commons, you had more horse feces images than I knew I needed. Thank you.I haven’t ridden in years, but if the “arena…
Last week, the journal Antibiotic Agents and Chemotherapy posted an accepted manuscript that contains some very bad news: an…
A pig flying at the Minnesota state fair. Picture by TCS. I’ve been involved in a few discussions of late on science-based…
I’ve been working on livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus and farming now for almost a decade. In that time, work from my…
I was extremely disturbed to see in the NYT’s letters a veterinarian’s defense of the practice of overuse of antibiotics in…
I recently gave a talk to a group here in Iowa City, emphasizing just how frequently we share microbes. It was a noontime talk…
I recently gave a talk to a group here in Iowa City, emphasizing just how frequently we share microbes. It was a noontime talk…
This is a GoogleMaps picture of a farm near Goldsboro in North Carolina (map). The two salami-colored ponds on either side are…
This is a GoogleMaps picture of a farm near Goldsboro in North Carolina (map). The two salami-colored ponds on either side are…
Hi, everyone. Apologies for dropping out of sight! As SUPERBUG's publication draws closer (and it's very close now), I keep…
The use of antibiotics as growth promoters in farm animals has always been a concern of mine. David Smith published this paper…
A little over a year ago I put a post up documenting research out of Canada which found methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus…