Colleen reports that Canadian pork products are super! SuperBUG filled, that is! Oh snap, how great was it when I did the twistabout there? Bob, queue the replay:

Colleen reports that Canadian pork products are super! SuperBUG filled, that is!

Yeah, that's good stuff.

The superbug, if you haven't been following mainstream news from the safety of under your bed where "they" can't hurt you, is an antibiotic resistant strain of staph bacteria known as MRSA, which is short for, I believe, "MR. So Amazinglyscary" because the stuff needs the antibiotic equivalent of a nuke to eradicate, and it's probably adapting to that too. Symptoms for those afflicted range from boils to pneumonia to death from infected blood.

And it's in pork. 10% of pork tested positive for the stuff in a sampling that spread across four Canadian provinces. This mirrors tests done in the Netherlands and Japan (where it was chickens instead of pigs)

Curiously absent from the analysis is the fact that something like half of the antibiotics in North America are given to farm animals to help them grow big and dead, which is something I'd think would be relevant when you're talking about something that's evolved by continually being attacked by antibiotics.

Authorities aren't sounding the alarm, because while antibiotics aren't working, heat is, so following proper cooking procedures should do the trick, assuming you can understand them and manage not to get any residue on your hands or face. Look for kitchen hazmat suits for sale by 2010.