date:Jul 01, 2014
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling for federal action to ban antibiotic use in food animals for growth promotion purposes so as to slow the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Use drives resistance and overuse drives resistance to happen even faster, said David Wallinga, a physician on the Keep Antibiotics Working steering committee. There is also overuse in hospitals, but, he said, As much as 70 percent of the use in agriculture is unnecessary or overuse.
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