Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine, essential for treating everything from routine skin infections to strep throat, and for protecting vulnerable patients receiving chemotherapy or being treated in intensive care units. But the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria—a result of decades of overuse in animal agriculture and human medicine combined with a lack of new drug development and innovation—has placed humanity on the precipice of what public health leaders call a “post-antibiotic” world in which even the most simple surgical procedure could have deadly consequences.
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McDonald's Antibiotics Announcement Is Big Public Health News
McDonald’s USA announced March 4, 2015, that within two years it would purchase only chicken raised without medically important antibiotics. This news is a sign that major fast food restaurants are recognizing that limiting antibiotic use in food animal production is good for business and good for public health. Read More
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Top Food Companies Moving Away From Overuse of Antibiotics on Industrial Farms
Consumers across the U.S. are demanding meat and poultry raised without antibiotics—and large producers, restaurants, and other institutions are listening. Read More
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New Antibiotics Bill Addresses the Threat of Superbugs
U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced the Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act on March 2, 2015. The bipartisan legislation would help reduce the public health threat of superbugs by compelling drugmakers to demonstrate that human antibiotics approved for use in livestock to prevent or control disease do not unduly contribute to drug resistance. Read More
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