I have taken the headline from The Times newspaper. This is a claim by campaigners but they’ve done their research very thoroughly. Superbugs have been found in more than 50% of Lidl chicken products as tested by campaigners at a German laboratory. The argument is …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, has claimed that UK farmers are irresponsibly and recklessly overusing antibiotics where this extravagant use of a precious drug remains legal because UK ministers have failed to stand up to vested interests by which he means farmers’ …
In a recent study, the scientists concluded that “globally, the association between antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) between human and animals goes both ways”. My understanding is that they mean that if humans consume too many antibiotics it works against them because the pathogens, …
This is not a criticism of hedgehogs. We all adore them. And this news shouldn’t change our attitude towards them in any way. It’s a bit of science which tells us that a bacterium, MRSA (Staphylococcus aureus), evolved on the skin of hedgehogs about 200 …
I am looking at a report in The Times newspaper of today Friday, September 4, 2020 about human antibiotics, and a study reported on Plos One about the prevalence of veterinary antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria in the surface water of a livestock production region …
