Antibiotic resistance in food animals nearly tripled since 2000
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The growing appetite for animal protein in developing countries has resulted in a smorgasbord of antibiotic consumption for livestock that has nearly tripled the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria easily transmitted from animals to humans, according to a recent report in the journal Science. Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), and ["]
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