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30 May 07
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The majority of the antibiotics produced in the world go not to human medicine but to prophylactic usage on the farm.1194 This may generate antibiotic resistance.
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there was a tremendous environmental pressure on the virus to mutate resistance to the antiviral
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microbiologists are aware of, and understand, the weight of evidence linking the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics with the emergence of resistant bacteria.
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Science editor-in-chief Dr. Kennedy, who served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, describes the antibiotic debate as a “struggle between good science and strong politics.” When meat production interests pressured Congress to shelve an FDA proposal to limit the practice, Kennedy concluded: “Science lost.”2193
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The reality is that these birds exist under such grossly unsanitary conditions, cramped together in their own waste, that the industry feels forced to lace their water supply with antibiotics. “Present production is concentrated in high-volume, crowded, stressful environments, made possible in part by the routine use of antibacterials in feed,”
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bacteria seem to be evolving resistance faster than our ability to create new antibiotics. “It takes us 17 years to develop an antibiotic,” explains a CDC medical historian. “But a bacterium can develop resistance virtually in minutes.
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