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2 thoughts on “The Antibiotic Crisis: A Looming Threat to Human Survival”
The article doesn’t really hit bulls eye.
While it’s true that antibiotic overuse is threatening the effectiveness of antibiotics, it isn’t overuse from doctors prescribing.
A huge part of the world’s antibiotic production (something like 70%) goes not to human use but is given to animals, as routine “preventive” injections, and even in their feed. So the meat we eat is laced with low level antibiotics, to which bacteria can easily develop resistance. Then we have resistant bacteria and antibiotics don’t work any more.
The culprits: Pharmaceutical companies who push their agricultural sales (for profit) and the US FDA who refuses to put an end to the charade.
The article doesn’t really hit bulls eye.
While it’s true that antibiotic overuse is threatening the effectiveness of antibiotics, it isn’t overuse from doctors prescribing.
A huge part of the world’s antibiotic production (something like 70%) goes not to human use but is given to animals, as routine “preventive” injections, and even in their feed. So the meat we eat is laced with low level antibiotics, to which bacteria can easily develop resistance. Then we have resistant bacteria and antibiotics don’t work any more.
The culprits: Pharmaceutical companies who push their agricultural sales (for profit) and the US FDA who refuses to put an end to the charade.
Good catch. I’ve updated the article to include an expanded Agriculture and Animal Production section.