South African scientists have echoed serious concerns flagged in a recent UN Environmental Programme report on the growth of antimicrobial resistance in the environment.
Globally, the overuse and misuse of drugs – especially antibiotics – in the food chain and in the pollution from livestock farming (spills of manure and other waste into soil and waterways), is a major contributor to the rapid rise of superbugs. How big a problem is antibiotic use in animal far.
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