Drug-Resistant Supergerm Infecting Wounded GIs
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Wired Steve Silberman Posted January 26, 2007 02:03 PM
I'm researching nutrition like crazy lately and I know why there are supergerms, and it's not because doctors are prescribing too many antibiotics for infections. It's because of:
Antibiotics
Almost all of the animals raised for food in the United States today are given antibiotics to stimulate growth and to keep them alive in filthy, disease-ridden conditions that would otherwise kill them. Roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. each year go to animals raised for food.31
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