archive for January 21st, 2008

Bringing your work home: Poultry workers carry drug-resistant E. coli into the community

by @ Monday, January 21st, 2008.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been in the news a lot lately.
Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle had a front page story about the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the causes is the routine addition of antibiotics to animal feed as "growth promoters" — including some antibiotics used for treatment of humans.
In a New York Times […]

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