We face an antibiotic apocalypse

‘The world is heading toward a post-antibiotic era in which common infections...will once again kill,’ says WHO chief Margaret Chan.
A poultry operation in Egypt. Eighty per cent of American antibiotic production goes to farm animals that are not ill.
LONDON, U.K.—I have never advocated that people who routinely feed low doses of antibiotics to livestock should be executed without trial. That would be too harsh, too irrevocable. There should be fair trials, and fines for a first offence, and prison for a second. Only habitual offenders should f...

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