Tuesday, February 21, 2012

How Using Antibiotics In Animal Feed Creates Superbugs

The topic of 'super bugs' was brought up in a debate about genetically modified organisms, or GMO's. This article talks about the indirect creation of super bugs from not necessarily GMO's, but simply antibiotics being put into farm animal's feed. These super bugs are called at one point in the article "antibiotic-resistant germs" that they say can cause harm to humans, even though they are caused by antibiotics in the animals feed. There is discussion in the article about how the problem could originally be traced back to only people with direct livestock exposure, but now it is definitely spreading to people who have never been near any livestock at all.

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