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Vast quantities of antibiotics are used by agriculture in the US, with little regulation or control. The stuff is in our water and food supply, whatever additi
by fiftyfifty 7y ago
Vast quantities of antibiotics are used by agriculture in the US, with little regulation or control. The stuff is in our water and food supply, whatever additional increases allowing people to purchase/use antibiotics without a prescription seem pretty small by comparison.
- rectangletangle 7y agoYou're certainly correct. But in this case it might bolster human specific pathogens. I know there is some overlap between human an animal pathogens, but unfettered access to antibiotics might accelerate the problem for humans specifically (which is probably worse than the current prescription only policy in the US).
- hawkice 7y agoMy understanding is that resistance to human pathogens is driven by waste water contamination. Human excrement combined with industrial quantities of antibiotics. I'm sure there is a smaller scale problem of human use, but that petri dish is the one that's causing the problems, is my understanding.