Dangerous superbugs can spread from pigs to humans, study reveals

Scientists call the discovery ‘alarming’, Zoe Tidman reports

Researchers in Denmark looked for the presence of a superbug bacterium in pigs (Getty Images)

Deadly superbugs may be able to jump from pigs to humans, according to new research.

Scientists in Denmark have found links between drug-resistant infections in hospital patients and bacterium in the farm animals.

The researchers looked at Clostridium difficile, a superbug which is resistent to the vast majority of antibiotics.