The issue of the worldwide rise of antimicrobial resistance has now suspected the food animals to be one of the causes. The new WHO guidelines recommend that the antibiotic use can be stopped especially in context to promote growth of these food animals and to prevent infectious diseases unless they are diagnosed and clinically proven in these animals. It is further recommended that even if the diseases are recognized in animals, it should be treated with drugs other than the antibiotics and the antibiotics should be labelled as “critically important for human medicine”.
Source: Michael Smith, WHO: Cut Antibiotic Use in Food Animals, Med Page Today Indeed! this is a very important recommendation as food animals are also one of the ways to spread resistance. I think we also need to dig out a few such neglected issues and show our participation in the campaign of killing this monster of…
