• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    The level of AB use in livestock in various countries is astonishing.
    Most european nations have to keep a very strict log of which antibiotics are used, and for what reason.
    Meanwhile, until recently India was using Colistin as a growth promoter.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Given the search summary of that one is “an antibiotic medication used as a last-resort treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections”, that sounds very bad.