All lovers of Emmental cheese need to think hard about their habit. Scientists have found out that this product has dangerous side effects, according to health info with reference to medikforum. En.

Cheese made from raw milk can be one of the reasons for the development of antibiotic resistance. This phenomenon poses a huge threat to humanity, and it is already compared with such dangers as terrorism and global warming. Scientists from Switzerland have identified a new antibiotic-resistant gene in dairy cows. This is a relatively harmless bacterium Macrococcus caseolyticus, which lives on the skin of dairy cows and can be spread by milking.

But here one of the genes of this bacterium mecD can adversely affect the way in the human body, antibiotics work in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. A methicillin-resistant gene turns a bacterium on the human skin of Staphylococcus aureus into a lethal microorganism. This bacterium, which can not be destroyed with the help of modern antibiotics, every year affects one and a half to two thousand Russians. Although the number of infections decreases, almost every fourth patient dies within 30 days of infection. However, M. Caseolyticus was not known for its ability to cause disease in humans.

Most often this kind of bacteria is destroyed during pasteurization, which means that people buying milk in stores do not take risks at all. But in products from raw milk such as emmental cheese, the bacterium can persist. Researchers from the University of Bern are concerned that if a bacterium passes its gene to a person, then an even more dangerous variant of MRSA will appear.

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