Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections

Re:Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-r... by defrost on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:07PM (#38284674)

Seems a bit rough and ready, why not use a more granular map:

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article/figure?...

or read through the two major cited articles:

Mulchandani et al. (2023) Global trends in antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: 2020 to 2030 https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1...

Delia Grace (2015) Review of Evidence on Antimicrobial Resistance and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a0897e40f0b...

There's some devil in the details, of course, are the antimicrobials used in animals the same as those used in humans? ie. Does increasing resistance in animals to X product result in resistance to Y product as used in humans?

Australia thinks it has the right solution here: https://www.amr.gov.au/about-amr/amr-australia/animal-health

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Re:Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-r... by michael1999 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:49AM (#38291029)

Food labeling is often limited to country of origin. I don't see how a more granular map is helpful.

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