Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
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Re: Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
#2I'm absolutely shocked who could have predicted this
Re: Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
#3I'm absolutely shocked who could have predicted this
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#4I'm absolutely shocked who could have predicted this
We need a new drug platform because the current model only satisfy the owners of the pharma corporations.
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#5It would be interesting to extend the study to other regions as well. The map doesn show any data for North America, Europe, Australia and Russia.
Re: Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
#6It would be interesting to extend the study to other regions as well. The map doesn show any data for North America, Europe, Australia and Russia.
> Van Boeckel and his colleagues analysed 901 epidemiological studies, conducted in developing nations
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#7I've been a vegetarian for a few years. Part of the impetus for my choice was the lack of regulation and health code standards in this country.
Recent news that the federal government is reducing inspection of meat really does scare me. How many people need to die (like in the early 1900s) before we re-realize the importance of these regulations on public life? When will the next Upton Sinclair come along?
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#9Source paper https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/eaaw1944.ful...
>From 2000 to 2018, the proportion of antimicrobial compounds with resistance higher than 50% (P50) increased from 0.15 to 0.41 in chickens and from 0.13 to 0.34 in pigs and plateaued between 0.12 and 0.23 in cattle.
>Globally, 73% of all antimicrobials sold on Earth are used in animals raised for food.
Jeeeesus. It sure feels like humanity is painting itself into a corner along multiple dimensions. I wonder at how many previous points in history did new technology save us from the brink of annihilation. Im not sure we've ever been powerfull enough to be truly as in danger as we are now.
On the other hand, earth is still slaloming between asteroids we cant predict or stop so we've never been out of danger at all. Oh well, back to work.
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#10"the four types of antimicrobial drug most commonly used in farm animals to help them gain weight — tetracyclines, sulfonamides, quinolones and penicillins — are also the ones with highest resistance rates."
It never ceases to amaze me the decisions that we as a species make with full knowledge of the consequences that seem to be geared towards implementing wide spread disaster. We as a species have very much decided that short term gains are well worth long term disaster.