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Group Distorts Resistance Data to Blame Farmers
2013-04-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Just days after the release of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report showing that medical doctors annually are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 80 per cent of Americans, a group is set to issue its own report, claiming that antibiotics use in food animals is the main cause for people developing antibiotic-resistant diseases.
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