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We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought

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101 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 16 Oct 25 02:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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like_any_other ◴[16 Oct 25 03:12 UTC] No.45601073[source]▶
Another source of antibiotic resistance (which the article forgets to mention) is their routine use in livestock, preventatively and to accelerate growth. I would wager that is the far more significant contributor, since there's simply much more of it - compare the total number of cattle in places where such use is allowed (meaning cattle are exposed to antibiotics for most of their lives), versus the number of people being treated with antibiotics (i.e. a very limited population, for a very limited period):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12029767/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6017557/

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1. burnt-resistor ◴[16 Oct 25 05:21 UTC] No.45601695[source]▶
It's used to keep cows alive that would otherwise die from being force-fed corn purely for economic reasons. It's the ranchers' choice to make more money at the expense of suffering of all of us and of the animals they torture. I've listened to former KAFO ranch hands bemoan that it's a truly shameful and disgusting practice that needs to be outlawed globally.