{"id":478,"date":"2011-06-03T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2011-06-20T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:55:35","slug":"e-coli-superbug-outbreak-in-germany-due-to-abuse-of-antibiotics-in-meat-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/archives\/478","title":{"rendered":"E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abuse of antibiotics in meat production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abuse of antibiotics in meat production<\/p>\n<div>Learn more:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/032590_ecoli_superbugs.html#ixzz1ODFNCuiC\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/032590_ecoli_superbugs.html#ixzz1ODFNCuiC<\/a><\/div>\n<p>(NaturalNews) The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide  as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as  &#8220;extremely aggressive and toxic.&#8221; Even worse, the strain is <strong>resistant to antibiotics<\/strong>, making it one of the world&#8217;s first widespread <strong>superbug food infections<\/strong> that&#8217;s racking up a noticeable body count while sickening thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Of  course, virtually every report you&#8217;ll read on this in the mainstream  media has the facts wrong. This isn&#8217;t about cucumbers being dangerous,  because <strong>e.coli does not grow on cucumbers<\/strong>. E.coli is an <em>intestinal strain of bacteria<\/em> that only grows inside the guts of animals (and people). Thus, the <em>source<\/em> of all this e.coli is ANIMAL, not vegetable.<\/p>\n<p>But  the media won&#8217;t admit that. Because the whole agenda here is to kill  your vegetables but protect the atrocious practices of the factory  animal meat industries. The FDA, in particular, loves all these  outbreaks because it gives them more moral authority to clamp down on  gardens and farms. They&#8217;ve been trying to irradiate and fumigate fresh  veggies in the USA for years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/023015_food_foods_USDA.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/023015_f&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  scientists have been cracking the code of this particular lethal strain  of e.coli. Microbiologists from the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf  now say &#8220;A preliminary analysis pointed to possible reasons for this  strain of E. coli&#8217;s extreme aggressiveness and resistance to  antibiotics. In addition, it can now be researched how this new type of  E. coli strain developed, why <strong>the strain can spread at great speed and why the illness it unleashes is so serious<\/strong>.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Killer-germ-antibiotic-afpsg-3204878075.html?x=0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Ki&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete blackout of the obvious source of this new strain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  mainstream media is predictably pretending it has no idea where this  new strain came from. They&#8217;re all scratching their heads and just  focusing on the &#8220;killer cucumbers&#8221; which is of course a particularly  lame bit of disinfo.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know where this e.coli really came from? <strong>The abuse of antibiotics in factory animal farms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Factory  animal farm operations, you see, raise cattle, pigs and chickens in  such atrociously bad and dirty conditions that they have to <strong>pump them full of antibiotics<\/strong> just to avoid the rapid spread of infection. This constant dosing with antibiotics creates the perfect breeding ground for <strong>superbugs<\/strong> in the guts of these animals.<\/p>\n<p>Then, these animals defecate and drop billions of e.coli bacteria with their stools which are then collected and used as <strong>crop fertilizers<\/strong>.  So the crops are actually grown in this stuff that&#8217;s contaminated with  animal fecal matter containing antibiotics-induced superbugs.<\/p>\n<p>The  veggies grown in the e.coli fertilizer then get shipped to  supermarkets, where people buy the produce and fail to wash it properly.  Once they consume it, the e.coli goes to work in their own guts which  are largely devoid of friendly flora because many <em>people<\/em> are also on antibiotics which wipe out their own intestinal flora, creating a perfect environment for food borne infection.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when people start dying, you see. It&#8217;s all basic cause and effect.<\/p>\n<p>So,  you see, antibiotics play a double role in this tragedy: They&#8217;re widely  abused throughout the animal ranching industry, and they&#8217;re also widely  abused by doctors treating human patients. And yet the media is just  strangely reluctant to print this obvious fact. They almost outright  refuse to tell readers the truth: <strong>E.coli superbugs are an antibiotics problem, not a vegetable problem!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What the press says about this outbreak &#8211; wow!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some astonishing quotes from the press:<\/p>\n<p><em>Chinese  and German scientists analyzed the DNA of the E. coli bacteria and  determined that the outbreak was caused by &#8220;an entirely new,  super-toxic&#8221; strain that contains several antibiotic-resistant genes,  according to a statement from the Shenzhen, China-based laboratory BGI.  It said the strain appeared to be a combination of two types of E. coli.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43247545\/ns\/business-stocks_and_economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4324754&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This  is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before,&#8221;  Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the World Health Organization, told  The Associated Press. The new strain has &#8220;various characteristics that  make it more virulent and toxin-producing&#8221; than the many E. coli strains  people naturally carry in their intestines. Preliminary genetic  sequencing suggests the strain is a never before seen combination of two  different E. coli bacteria, with aggressive genes that could explain  why the outbreak appears to be so massive and dangerous, the agency  said.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110602\/ap_on_he_me\/eu_contaminated_vegetables_europe_51\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110602&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to protect yourself from e.coli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On  the practical side, what can you do to protect yourself from e.coli  contamination of vegetables? There are FOUR simple things you can do:<\/p>\n<p>1) EAT LOCAL. Grow your own food and \/ or buy from local farmers&#8217; markets.<\/p>\n<p>2)  WASH YOUR VEGGIES. If you wash them well, even e.coli won&#8217;t be a  problem. The e.coli is only present in those veggies that aren&#8217;t  adequately washed.<\/p>\n<p>3) TAKE PROBIOTICS. The more &#8220;friendly&#8221;  bacteria you have in your gut, the less space there is for toxic e.coli  to take hold. The secret truth about these infections &#8212; that you&#8217;re not  being told &#8212; is that virtually everyone infected with toxic e.coli is  someone with <em>compromised digestive flora<\/em>. Taking probiotics gives you a buffer against invading nasties.<\/p>\n<p>4)  AVOID ANTIBIOTICS. Most antibiotics are prescribed to humans by  clueless doctors who prescribe them for things like viral infections and  asthma, none of which are treated in the least by antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>These  four simple steps will protect nearly everyone from e.coli infections  acquired through food. So why doesn&#8217;t the mainstream media teach people  these four simple steps? Because they&#8217;re too busy blaming cucumbers,  tomatoes and spinach, I guess. They&#8217;re utterly ignorant of the simple  dynamics of e.coli superbug mutation and propagation.<\/p>\n<p>Food safety  isn&#8217;t rocket science, folks. It&#8217;s simpler than you&#8217;ve been told. And  it&#8217;s based on the fundamental idea that you shouldn&#8217;t raise cattle, hogs  and chicken in dirty, inhumane conditions requiring a constant dose of  chemical antibiotics just to keep them alive.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/032590_ecoli_superbugs.html#ixzz1ODFFRtbO\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/032590_ecoli_superbugs.html#ixzz1ODFFRtbO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/e-coli1.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Of course, virtually every report you&#8217;ll read on this in the mainstream media has the facts wrong. This isn&#8217;t about cucumbers being dangerous, because e.coli does not grow on cucumbers. E.coli is an intestinal strain of bacteria that only grows inside the guts of animals (and people). Thus, the source of all this e.coli is ANIMAL, not vegetable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,527,207,155],"tags":[656,654,655,650,651,652,661,648,649,220,657,658,660,659,653,670,665,664,671,672,666,210,669,667,668,663,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}