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Are antibiotics suddenly a factor in viral infections?
by beardedwizard 2y ago
Are antibiotics suddenly a factor in viral infections?
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe antibiotics permit the shitty unsanitary conditions that make viral spread also more likely.
- aaomidi 2y agoAlso they wreck the immune system in general.
- maxerickson 2y agoMost antibiotics fed to cattle are used to bias the population in their digestive system to optimize feed conversion, not for infection control. Milk is discarded if the cow is being treated for an infection, so it's not like they just do nothing else to keep them healthy.
- ceejayoz 2y agohttps://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/feedlot99_is_treatresp.pdf https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/feedlot99_is_... The incidence of bronchopneumonia in feed lots is 14% of the animals. Infection is very common.
- Affric 2y agoAntibiotics are enabling unhygienic conditions. Places with poor governance in animal agriculture have a vicious cycle of poor regulation permitting unhygienic conditions which permits unhygienic infrastructure and practices which causes disease which is papered over by antibiotics which allows terrible conditions to continue.
- floatrock 2y ago(this is an amazingly succinct 1-liner of a complex issue. bravo)
- sitkack 2y agoYou could have said that in so many better ways.