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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[] No.45409599[source]
This isn’t news. The alarm bells have been clanging away for decades. One of the scariest, is drug-resistant TB. I understand there’s also drug-resistant leprosy, but that doesn’t transmit easily.

I’m old enough to remember that penicillin cured almost everything. You started a 10-day course, and felt better in a day and a half.

The problem was that many folks stopped taking it, when they felt better.

These days, American meat is absolutely overflowing with antibiotics. I don’t know if there’s any kind of serious effort to address that.

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1. SwtCyber ◴[] No.45412189[source]
The overuse of antibiotics in agriculture is especially maddening. It's one of the clearest, most preventable drivers of resistance, and yet regulation is patchy at best