Pork, beef and chicken in supermarkets could be infected with a strain of MRSA, according to a report today by organic campaigners which warns that the issue could become "a new monster" The bacterium is sweeping northern Europe and has already infected one in five of all pork products on sale in Holland, from where Britain imports almost two thirds of all its pork, the report claims. advertisement However, the report by the Soil Association, the organic pressure group, claims that the bug...

While there are not nearly as many immunizations that an adult should get compared to a child, there are some adult booster immunizations that should not be overlooked. The disease is caused by varicella zoster, the virus that causes chicken pox and often hides in the body of a person, who has had chicken pox, until later in life when it causes an outbreak of shingles. This is available at most health departments and offers protection against meningitis that college students may be exposed...

The farms are concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, which have been blamed for polluting waterways and creating foul odors, dust, gaseous emissions and other air pollution. Environmental groups and people who live near CAFOs want tougher state oversight of the farms, including a moratorium on new or expanded CAFOs in Michigan for five years. But CAFO operators, backed by the Michigan Farm Bureau, favor continuing and putting into law a 2002 agreement in which they can be...

The question is how much and what will the long-term effect be on corn going into feed or food? But it's a hot market, and when there's a hot market, people want to get in. Closer to home, the numbers show that in large counties in the Midwest, which includes both Lake and Porter in Indiana, food prices rose 3.4 percent over last year. There is a confluence of world and national events causing some of the higher prices, food experts say. The overseas market in the past, he said, has been...

Since three wild bird found dead in Nuremberg in northern Bavaria tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain on Sunday, three more cases have been confirmed, with five swans and one goose infected, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, a veterinary institution, said on Monday. Since three wild bird found dead in Nuremberg in northern Bavaria tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain on Sunday, three more cases have been confirmed, with five swans and one goose infected, the Friedrich Loeffler...