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Excessive Antibiotic Use in Animals Threatens Human Health, Requires Action (1 of 3)

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Excessive Antibiotic Use in Animals Threatens Human Health, Requires Action (1 of 3)

image: Antimicrobial consumption for food animal production by country in 2013 (light red) and projected for 2030 (dark red). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.P. Van Boeckel at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Reducing global antimicrobial use in food animals." view more 

Credit: Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy


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