Health Care -> and antibiotic resistance ofRelated Diseases
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The US is a developed nation with a developing health care crisis. Antibiotic resistance is growing and remarkably little is being done to combat the threat. While physicians and hospitals try alternate courses of treatment for infections, a significant culprit in the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria goes unchallenged ??livestock conditions. Roughly 25 million pounds of antibiotics are fed to livestock each year, a number which amounts to nearly eight times the total consumed by humans annually. A significant majority of these medicines are dispensed before the animals get sick, as a prophylactic measure necessary to combat the living conditions in which disease thrives and about a third of the classes of antibiotics used in livestock are also used in the human population.Give ...
