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EAST LANSING, Mich. - For Michigan State University s Felicia Wu, the surprise isn t that people who work with livestock are at higher risk of picking up antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but instead how much higher their risk levels are. This is a bit of a wakeup call, said Wu, John. A Hannah Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. I don t think there was much awareness that swine workers are at such high risk, for example. Or that large animal vets are also at extremely high risk.
Compared with individuals who don t work with animals, those working on swine farms are more than 15 times more likely to harbor a particular strain of a bacterium known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, acquired from livestock. For cattle workers, that number is nearly 12. For livestock veterinarians, it approaches eight.
Jan 26, 2021 9:56 AM
Robert (Bob) McClay, Jr., 82 of Indiana, PA passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family on January 24, 2021 after a 15-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Bob was born in 1938 to the late Robert and Corrine McClay in Washington, PA.
Bob grew up in Washington and graduated from Trinity High School. He had many wonderful adventures with his sister Margaret (Margie) and his beloved cousins who were a source of joy and kinship throughout his life. Bob enjoyed growing up surrounded by animals including his favorite dog Pepper and participating in Boy Scouts, reaching Eagle Scout status. Following high school, Bob attended and graduated from Bucknell University in 1959 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He later earned an MBA from American University and completed graduate studies in Ergonomics and Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. Following his graduation from Bucknell, he worked a short time and then attende
January 13, 2021
A new study by Yale SOM’s Edward Kaplan and Scott Rodilitz, based on data from a long-running survey of migrants who have returned from the United States to Mexico, estimates that the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States is 19.6 million, far exceeding widely accepted estimates.
Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, professor of public health, and professor of engineering; Rodilitz is a doctoral student in operations at Yale SOM. Their study appears in the journal
Risk Analysis, the flagship publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.
Read the study:
Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
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