Antibiotic resistance: how drug misuse in livestock farming is a problem for human health
(WorldNews Health)

Shutterstock Rearing animals for food takes time and requires hard work to maintain their health and well-being. Just as in humans, farm animals sometimes get sick and require drugs to treat infections. But organisms that cause infections are becoming increasingly resistant to the available drugs. This antimicrobial resistance increases the more a drug is used, and when it is used inappropriately. This misuse of antiobiotics is also having an impact on human health. We often think about antimicrobial resistance from the perspective of humans overusing antibiotics , but in fact it is a complex problem of many inter-related factors including animal health, the environment and food production....