Food Safety

The 'Return of our Old Enemies in an Untreatable Form' Written by Eric Kroh Category: Articles Published: 14 June 2011 Before the widespread use of antibiotics, infectious diseases were a major cause of illness and death. Thanks to the drugs, many of those diseases have been brought under control since the 1950s. But the misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has yielded bacteria that are increasingly antibiotic resistant, and, as reported last week, the agriculture industry in the … [Read more...] about The ‘Return of our Old Enemies in an Untreatable Form’