34 Thinking like a microbe
Gitte du Plessis
Introduction
My research project The Geopolitics of Microbes began on a hot Danish summer day bicycling through the enveloping smell of pig farm. Denmark, which in The Guardian has been described as “the world’s laboratory for industrial pig farming,” was at the time enthralled in a nationwide debate about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These bacteria, which are resistant to antibiotics because of overuse in pig farming, were spreading from pigs to humans. The media landscape was full of stories of women isolated during childbirth and pigs being euthanized simply because their bodies harbored the bacteria. As I inhaled the air of the Danish pig ...
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