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My bet is on the Chinese with their enormous pig farms which feed every pig a constant cocktail of antibiotics to ensure they grow faster to be the ground zero
by noodles23 10y ago
My bet is on the Chinese with their enormous pig farms which feed every pig a constant cocktail of antibiotics to ensure they grow faster to be the ground zero for an antibiotic-resistant epidemic.
Edit Source: A Chinese government official in charge of a meat-producing SOE boasted about it during a presentation seeking foreign investment
- ceph_ 10y agoThe same practice is used by meat producers in the US. In fact the practice was invented here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
- Fomite 10y agoThough we're not particularly heavy users of colistin in livestock, unlike China, which is specifically called out in the article.