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The sheer power of numbers — China, as a population-heavy breeding ground for developing antibiotic resistance 0

Citation Mara Hvistendahl, China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance, Science 336(6083): 795 (18 May 2012) Far away from the Western Hemisphere, but with a hand in our gut The comparatively wealthy world does not have to look far to see depressing signs of the stupidity and greed that affect public health. I previously touched [...]

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25 June 2012 – 15:43
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By BrainiYak

In the United States, public interest groups filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration yesterday for permitting the gross misuse of antibiotics in healthy animals in agriculture, a practice that contributes to the world’s growing antibiotic resistance problem — And from India, multidrug resistant bacteria discovered in New Dehli’s water supply 0

News from the Natural Resources Defense Council’s website The NRDC press release said: Approximately 70% of all antibiotics used in the United States are given to healthy farm animals at low doses to promote faster growth and compensate for unsanitary living conditions — a practice that has increased over the past 60 years despite evidence [...]

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26 May 2011 – 23:39
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By BrainiYak