The adoption of intensive farming practices in middle-income countries is estimated to account for up to a third of the increase in global use of antibiotics for livestock between 2010 and 2030
Researchers identified "antibiotic resistance genes" in waterways and soils near factory farms in the U.S., according to a report shared exclusively with Newsweek.
Two writers warn of the danger of spraying medical antibiotics on citrus trees to stop the greening disease. One big problem is creating more anti-biotic resistant "superbugs."
It has gotten harder for people to get the needed exposure to good microbes—and the pandemic hasn’t helped. Here, eight ways scientists are working to restore this essential biological system.
Overuse of antibiotics while raising America’s livestock is putting humans at risk. Food ID says its rapid-result test for slaughterhouses is the solution that the meat industry needs.
Using antibiotics when they’re not needed is a long-standing problem, and the pandemic “has thrown a little bit of gas on the fire,” a pediatrics professor says.
The manufacturing plant responsible for PFAS-coated fast food packaging pumps out loads of a banned ozone-depleting compound along with "forever chemicals."
