Animal products are, in fact, one of the ways antibiotic-resistant bacteria get transmitted to humans. In recent years, Consumer Reports has tested hundreds of packages of supermarket meat, poultry, ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

A professor of veterinary medicine, Victoria Adetunji has expressed worry over the indiscriminate use of antibiotics by livestock producers and product processors. Contained in her inaugural ...

But since approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used by the meat and poultry industry to make animals grow ... supermarkets are making products raised without ...

Antibiotics are often overprescribed by physicians and veterinarians and overused by the public. Where they can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread ...

The animals we eat consume ... a dangerous new world of resistance to antibiotics, we ask whether there really is a link between their use on farms and human resistance. From large scale ...

For example, to feed its young, it scavenges small pathogen-laden dead animals ... antibiotics. “They must have antibacterial properties that could be used to fight bacterial infections in ...