A special investigation into how the new pig superbug LA-MRSA is spreading onto our plates and into our bodies. Watch the disturbing results of the Guardian’s food tests in four of Britain’s biggest supermarkets, where the superbug has been found in pork. It’s not deadly – but factory pigs overdosing on antibiotics is the latest twist on the long road that, microbiologists warn, will make antibiotics so useless that more of us will be die from antibiotic-resistant drugs than from cancer by 2050.
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- Video published on 18 Jun 2015 by TheGuardian.
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- Watch more research videos on @DES_Journal YT channel.