BIOL 2905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antimicrobial Resistance, European Centre For Disease Prevention And Control, Campylobacter
27 Nov 2016
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Article: mercola; cdc reveals disturbing truth about factory farms & superbugs. According to ecdc, antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health worldwide: primary cause for man-made epidemic; misuse of antibiotics, overuse (not just in medicine) in food production. Animals fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion. Those antibiotics are then transferred to us via meat and even animal manure as crop fertilizer. Antibiotics use in livestock should be phased out. Four drug resistant pathogens in question are: campylobacter, salmonella, e. coli, shigella. Cdc"s report issues the following recommendations: avoid inappropriate antibiotic use in food animals, track antibiotics in food animals, stop spread of campylobacter among animals on farms. Improve food production and processing to reduce contamination: educate consumers and food workers about safe food handling practices. Two drug resistant pathogens more commonly associated with antibiotic overuse in human medicine include: clostridium difficile, staphylococcus aureus.
