What are Your Views on the Critical List of Antibiotics?

18 February 2015, at 12:00am

ANALYSIS - Agricultural use of antimicrobial medicines produces a source of resistant bacteria that can spread to humans.

To limit the dangers, the World Health Organisation has produced a list of drugs critically important for human medicine.

How these antimicrobials are linked to those that are used for livestock is a question that is often debated.

And whether the use of antibiotics in animals will increase antibiotic resistance in humans is also a question that has raised much debate in some quarters.



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