NAIROBI, April 8 (Xinhua) -- There is an urgency for African countries to fast-track the phasing out of antibiotic use in livestock production in order to halt the spread of superbugs, a campaigner said Thursday during the World Health Day. Tennyson Williams, the director for Africa at World...
South American countries have changed their regulations regarding antibiotic use in livestock production. This literature review examines how far the five largest meat-producing countries in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay) have come in terms...
With the introduction of intensive husbandry systems the increased exposure of livestock to infectious diseases meant that the use of antibiotics was required to maintain animal health and productivity. As new husbandry techniques in livestock production systems improve the health and well being of livest...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from livestock can spread to humans via many channels: soil, air, water and food. Studies have found high levels of contamination with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat sold in retail stores. In 2012, an outbreak of salmonella that was resistant to multiple an...
Use of antibiotics in livestock raising. Antibiotics are used to treat erysipelas and dysentery of swine, anthrax, and strangles of horses, pullorum disease of poultry, actinomycosis, bronchial pneumonia, gastrointestinal diseases of young animals, sepsis, metritis, vaginitis, and many other diseases. ...
(CDC). In recent years, public health officials in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America have voiced serious concerns about the overuse of antibiotics in livestock production. When antibiotics are overused on the farm, drug-resistant bacteria can develop in the animal population. These ...
Singapore start-up Peptobiotics has raised US$6.2M in Series A funding to commercialise its antimicrobial peptide technology as it seeks to replace the use of antibiotics, firstly in aquaculture, and in the future in livestock. Anatomy of a fall in global feed production 03-Apr-2024 By Jane...
Even so, the increase in demand is sure to make agriculture all over the world shift to amore intensive pattern of production. Officials from WHO estimate a sharp increase in total antibioticsuse in livestock by 2030 and believe such use will double in what they call middle-income countries...
PUTTING MEAT ON THE BONES Antibiotics have many uses in livestock. They are used to treat active infections, prophylacti- cally to prevent infections, or even as growth promoters. It was shown in the 1940s that treat- ing pigs and chickens with broad-spectrum antibiotics increased their size...
Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens can spread from livestock to people through contaminated meat, environmental pathways such as water and air, and exposures among people working in livestock operations or living near them. To test the impact of the new legislation on antibiotic-resistant infections in ...