UK: Antibiotics in livestock 'threatens humans'

24 March 2009

The Government's chief medical officer has warned that heavy use of antibiotics in livestock farming, as well as in general medicine, is a threat to human health....

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Quote: "...every unnecessary prescription written by a doctor, every uncompleted course of antibiotics and every inappropriate or unnecessary use in animals or agriculture is potentially a death warrant for a future patient."...
-------> Sir Liam Donaldson

Source: Antibiotics in livestock 'threatens humans'

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