The overuse of antibiotics in farming is a major threat to human health, a UN report warns. England's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has already warned antibiotic resistance could make routine operations such as hip replacements life-threatening within a few years. How does farming spread antibiotic resistance? Antibiotic resistance is also being spread where drugs are manufactured as factory discharges may be released into streams that feed larger rivers. Efforts to curb the resistance crisis have so far focused on people, such as encouraging people not to seek antibiotics for minor illnesses.

Source: Daily Mail December 06, 2017 08:10 UTC