antibiotic resistance – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png antibiotic resistance – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus Is Spreading Among Us https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/lethal-industrial-farm-fungus-spreading-among-us/ Sun, 12 May 2019 14:18:19 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/lethal-industrial-farm-fungus-spreading-among-us/ by Alex Liebman and Rob Wallace

Eighty percent of U.S. antibiotics are used to promote livestock and poultry growth and protect the animals from the bacterial consequences of the manure-laden environments in which they are grown. That’s 34 million pounds a year of antibiotics as of 2015. Fungicide and pesticide production at Sapec Crop Protection, Portugal The agricultural applications help generate drug resistance across multiple human bacterial infections, killing 23,000-100,000 Americans a year and, with an increasing amount of antibiotics applied abroad, 700,000 people worldwide.]]> by Alex Liebman and Rob Wallace

Eighty percent of U.S. antibiotics are used to promote livestock and poultry growth and protect the animals from the bacterial consequences of the manure-laden environments in which they are grown. That’s 34 million pounds a year of antibiotics as of 2015.

Fungicide and pesticide production at Sapec Crop Protection, Portugal
Fungicide and pesticide production at Sapec Crop Protection, Portugal

The agricultural applications help generate drug resistance across multiple human bacterial infections, killing 23,000-100,000 Americans a year and, with an increasing amount of antibiotics applied abroad, 700,000 people worldwide.

]]> Big Pharma’s pollution is creating deadly superbugs while the world looks the other way https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/big-pharmas-pollution-creating-deadly-superbugs-while-world-looks-other-way/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:31:51 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/big-pharmas-pollution-creating-deadly-superbugs-while-world-looks-other-way/ by Madlen Davies

Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening. A major study published today in the prestigious scientific journal Infection found “excessively high” levels of antibiotic and antifungal drug residue in water sources in and around a major drug production hub in the Indian city of Hyderabad, as well as high levels of bacteria and fungi resistant to those drugs. Scientists told the Bureau the quantities found meant they believe the […]]]> by Madlen Davies

Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.

A major study published today in the prestigious scientific journal Infection found “excessively high” levels of antibiotic and antifungal drug residue in water sources in and around a major drug production hub in the Indian city of Hyderabad, as well as high levels of bacteria and fungi resistant to those drugs. Scientists told the Bureau the quantities found meant they believe the drug residues must have originated from pharmaceutical factories.

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