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“Experts Raise Fears of Antibiotic - Resistant Superbugs Spread Through Food Supply”
by ABC
July 25th, 2013

Medical experts have raised fears of a new strain of antibiotic-resistant superbug spread through food and even drinking water.

The British chief medical officer has described the superbug threat as ranking with terrorism or global warming.

Australia’s chief scientist this month warned antibiotic resistance could mean an end to modern medicine as we know it.

Professor Lindsay Grayson, who heads up the infectious diseases unit at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital, says there is an urgent need to look at superbugs in the food supply.

“The problem with superbugs is like a bushfire. It’s running,” Professor Graham told 7.30.

“And of course we need new fire trucks and new helicopters and all that sort of stuff, but they’re going to take years.

“We’ve got to put in the containment lines to stop this.”

He says food coming in from overseas is of primary concern.

“A shipment of prawns from Vietnam was blocked because it had high levels of antibiotic residues in the prawns,” he said.

“Well, if I was to give you a script for that antibiotic that was in those prawns, I’d have to call Canberra for permission.”

A recent Senate inquiry found that seafood imported largely from southeast Asia was failing antibiotic tests.

In a test of 341 tonnes of seafood from Vietnam, 5 per cent – or 17 tonnes – were found to have antibiotic residue.

Editors Note.....This seems to be a tribulation period scenario.

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