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Resistance to the Antibiotic of Last Resort Is Silently Spreading - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...512705 antibiotic resistance
shared by Casey Finnerty on 23 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • farmers started using it by the tons in animals, where low doses of antibiotics can promote growth.
  • November 18, 2015, scientists published a report in the British medical journal The Lancet: A single, easily spreadable gene makes the bacteria that carry it resistant to colistin, our antibiotic of last resort.
  • Chinese scientists had found this gene, called mcr-1, in pig farms and on meat in supermarkets.
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  • By the time anyone had figured out mcr-1’s existence, it had already spread around the world.  
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We Will Miss Antibiotics When They're Gone - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...d-a-post-antibiotic-world.html antibiotic resistance
shared by Casey Finnerty on 20 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • more than 23,000 people in the United States are estimated to die every year from resistant bacteria.
  • Yet few new antibiotics are in development. Most large drug companies have fled the field. The reason is simple: To conserve their effectiveness, new antibiotics are put on the shelf to be used only when older antibiotics stop working. That makes perfect sense for public health, but companies can’t make a profit on what they can’t sell.
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