Health News from Medical News Today: Routine Antimicrobial Use In Animals Risks Human And Animal Health

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Routine Antimicrobial Use In Animals Risks Human And Animal Health 2 Jun 2011, 12:00 am The more we use antimicrobials on our livestock the more resistant pathogens there are. This poses a risk for human health because there are more human infections with superbugs for which there might eventually be no effective medication, researchers from the National Food Institute in Denmark reported today in Student BMJ (British Medical Journal). Jørgen Schlundt and team stress that profitable livestock farming is possible with considerably lower routine use of antimicrobials. They call for stricter regulations and closer monitoring of antimicrobial use in farm animals... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.