Pork packed with antibiotics

By JEFF ROBERSON/The Associated Press

December 30, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST

This Aug. 24 photo shows piglets in a pen on a hog farm belonging to Russ Kremer in Frankenstein. The farmer was nearly killed by modern-day farming when he got a staph infection from a boar. And more and more, other Americans, many of them living far from barns and pastures, are similarly at risk.

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