• LSNLDN
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    1 month ago

    How much of this resistance is down to feeding livestock antibiotics compared to doctors over-prescribing to people, or what is the cause do you know? Is there any way to slow down the rate?

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      1 month ago

      The level of AB use in livestock in various countries is astonishing.
      Most european nations have to keep a very strict log of which antibiotics are used, and for what reason.
      Meanwhile, until recently India was using Colistin as a growth promoter.

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        1 month ago

        Given the search summary of that one is “an antibiotic medication used as a last-resort treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections”, that sounds very bad.

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      I saw numbers on this recently. It was something like 80-90% of all antibiotics are given to livestock. So this is a huge contributor.