date:Jul 14, 2012
The report cited a Canadian study, which claimed that the bacteria found in women with difficult-to-treat urinary tract infections matched a drug-resistant E.coli strain found in chickens.
However, the US National Chicken Council (NCC) has released a statement, backed by scientists, which refuted the link between the E.coli that causes human urinary tract infections and the E.coli found on chicken products.
Randall Singer, DVM, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minn