Concern over Use of Antibiotics to Make Chickens Grow FasterByline: Martha LindenWestern Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Although regulations prohibit Ugandan drug shops from selling antibiotics for human use without a prescription [13], this practice is widespread and seen in other LMICs [9,10,11,14,15,16]. In contrast, veterinary drug shops can legally sell antibiotics over-the-counter which are used by farmer...
I’ve been in the dog business all my life. As a boy I worked at my father’s kennel, “Canine College” in West Redding, Connecticut. My father,John Behan, began his career in the Army Canine Corps during WW Two, training dogs for deployment in the Pacific theater of combat. After ...
antibiotics, and among the total range of human antibiotics reported, amoxicillin, tetracycline and penicillin were stated as used in animals in all three countries. The key themes identified to be driving crossover-use were: (1) medicine-providers’ and livestock-keepers’ perceptions of the ...