Review on antimicrobial resistance warns that antibiotic utilize on animals outweighs that on humans in many countries,posing great health riskThe utilize of antibiotics in agriculture is fuelling drug resistance and must be crop back or even banned where they are important for humans, a report commissioned by David Cameron has warned. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance said global utilize of antimicrobials in food production at least matched that by humans, and extending even to the widespread application in some areas of “final resort antibiotics for humans – which cannot be replaced when ineffective – to animals. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com