Infectious Diseases A-Z: Antibiotics in farm animals

The World Health Organization is urging countries to restrict the use of antibiotics in food animal production. Food producers in many countries feed?low-dose antibiotics to farm animals to encourage the animals to grow bigger and faster,?which, in return, contributes to the antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Mayo Clinic pediatric infectious diseases specialist?Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, says, "When [...]
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