Constant readers: There’s an important new paper that’s been out for a week that I haven’t gotten to you. I apologize; it’s been busy. (Let’s not even talk about the important paper that’s been out for two weeks. Maybe over the weekend…)
We’ve talked for ages now about the potential dangers of unrestricted antibiotic use in [...]
February 11, 2010
Constant readers, I hope you watched the second day of CBS News’ series on antibiotic use in farming, and how it promotes the emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections in animal and humans. I found it surprisingly hard-hitting. Here’s the video and the text version.
Most of the report explored the farm experience in Denmark, which in 1998 [...]
February 10, 2010
Constant readers, I hope you saw the CBS News package on antibiotics in farming Tuesday night. (It continues Wednesday.) MRSA played a prominent role, in an account of infections among workers at a chicken plant (the same outbreak, I think, as was described by Prevention magazine last August) and in questions about MRSA in pig [...]
Antibiotics and farming — how superbugs happen
0 CommentsCBS antibiotics and farming, day 2 – and more on the Danish experience
0 CommentsCBS antibiotics and farming package, day one
0 CommentsWarning on ST398: Monitor this now
0 CommentsH1N1 flu and swine surveillance – more relevance for MRSA
0 CommentsDoes ethanol production produce resistant bacteria too?
0 CommentsGreat op-ed in the LA Times on antibiotics in animals
0 CommentsAntibiotic resistance in food animals all across Europe
0 CommentsGreat post elsewhere on antibiotic use in animals
0 CommentsClosing the loop: meat, meat-eaters, health-care workers
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