Pet owners can give their pets MRSA and then vice versa

This was an interesting podcast where an AVMA representative was interviewing a specialist at the university of Oklahoma on MRSA transmission. MRSA is a growing problem in humans, and now in pets as well. Researchers are finding that humans are contaminating their pets, where they can then become carriers and infect other humans or pets they come in contact with.

This is a reminder why we will not just administer an antibiotic on an owner's request without first running a test to find out what the infection is. Drug-resistance is a very serious human as well as now a pet problem.