80% of antibiotics in the US are used in animal husbandry, often because antibiotics cause animals to grow bigger. Until very recently, farmers could buy 55-gallon drums of antibiotics from Alibaba.com.
Those antibiotics persist in the environment, where their exposure to scores of different species of bacteria causes resistance to develop across gene pools, which is bad because of horizontal gene transfer.
The majority of communicable diseases in humans have zoonotic origins.
It's insane that still wasn't enough, and the industry is now using antibacterial peptides that mirror innate immune systems.
Those antibiotics persist in the environment, where their exposure to scores of different species of bacteria causes resistance to develop across gene pools, which is bad because of horizontal gene transfer.
The majority of communicable diseases in humans have zoonotic origins.
It's insane that still wasn't enough, and the industry is now using antibacterial peptides that mirror innate immune systems.