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 E-Mail DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains are spreading between pigs, farmworkers, their families and community residents, and represents an emerging public health threat, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. S. aureus is commonly found in soil and water, as well as on the skin and in the upper respiratory tract in pigs, other animals, and people. It can cause medic...

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Listen • 3:50 President Biden has promised to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on environmental justice. Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour's drive from the coast. It's lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county's many industrial hog farms. "It can get really bad," says Hall, the co-founder of the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help in Duplin County. There are...

Carolyn Kaster/AP toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP President Biden has promised to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on environmental justice. Carolyn Kaster/AP Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour's drive from the coast. It's lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county's many industrial hog farms. "It can get really bad," says Hall, the co-founder of the Rur...

By President-elect Joe Biden leaves at The Queen Theater after announcing his climate and energy team nominees and appointees in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour’s drive from the coast. It’s lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county’s many industrial hog farms. “It can get really bad,” says Hall, the co-founder of the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help in Duplin C...