There are those in the farming world who want to deny the reality of the role of antibiotic animal use in human infection. Here is an article that highlights the reality and looks in detail at the farm situation
Antibiotic usage in animals has definitely contributed to the current situation as regards resistant bacteria. Antibacterials contribute to the development of resistance in animal pathogens and commensals, and thus increase the risk that humans will be colonised and/or infected with resistant zoonotic bacteria (1, 37). This important consequence has been reviewed in many previous publications, and will not be detailed in this article. The aim of this paper is to present the actual situation of antimicrobial resistance at farm level and demonstrate how the prudent and responsible use of antibiotics may contribute to its containment and improved food safety, as well as reduce the hazards of the transmission of zoonotic pathogens
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