MRSA Found in Water Treatment Plant, Posing Threat to those Exposed

MRSA Found in Water Treatment Plant, Posing Threat to those Exposed







Lisa Garber - Naturalsociety.com
Activist Post

University of Maryland researchers found antibiotic-resistant
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at two water
treatment plants in the Midwest and two more in the mid-Atlantic area.
This brings into question the health and safety of the facilities’
workers as well as individuals exposed to wastewater.

What many news agencies are not addressing, however, is the dangerous
state of modern medicine in which we turn so easily—eagerly, in many
cases—to ineffective, even harmful antibiotics perpetuating runaway
germs like staph.


MRSA Present in Treated Water

The new study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives
and included samples from four different water treatment facilities and
their varying stages. MRSA was found in 83 percent of raw sewage
samples and in half of all samples gathered; methicillin-susceptible
Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) was found in 55 percent of samples.

After each stage of treatment, water contained less
MRSA and MSSA, but one of the plants—one known for not chlorinating its
water through “tertiary treatment”—did have MRSA in the final treatment
process.

MRSA is often found in hospitals as well as communal areas such as
jails, childcare centers , and athletic facilities It leaves both the
medical community and the germ-fearing public in the grip of fear as it
does not respond to antibiotics, the go-to western medical cure-all.
Antibiotic-Resistant Germs on the Rise

Senior medical professionals are now saying that antibiotics are overprescribed and destroying gut health. Consequences may even be permanent,
resulting in altered metabolism and raised risk of obesity and
metabolic syndrome. At least one report claims that antibiotics might be
partially responsible for rising rates of mental illness.

Admittedly, this research is in its infancy, but they are returning far
too grim results for physicians to be so cavalierly doling out
antibiotics for something as benign and naturally treatable as the
common cold. No doubt, antibiotic-resistant germs like MRSA will remain
on the rise as long as this over-prescription continues.

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