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Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US
(arstechnica.com)
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Just to be clear, a little googling around about the drugs in question seems to indicate major use of Ceftriaxone (the front line antibiotic for gonorrhea) and its analogues in factory farming.
Reuters: Special Report: Powerful antibiotic for cows often misused by farmers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-farmaceuticals-ceftiofur-specialrepor/special-report-powerful-antibiotic-for-cows-often-misused-by-farmers-idUSKCN0JJ03T20141205
So what's really distressing here to me is that this likely isn't even from human overuse, and this affects diseases other than just gonorrhea.
Antibiotic use in pig farming and its associated factors in L County in Yunnan, China: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025606/
Personal Note: This is not meant to single out China for anything, antibiotic use is out of control for farmers all over the planet. This was just one of the first results that came up for "ceftriaxone farming."
It's really distressing how factory farming is making a huge impact on the ability of antibiotics to continue to be effective.
animal farming is the worst: methane production which is a more potent grennhouse gaz. antibiotic resistance..its messed up!
Lab-grown meat. Lab-grown meat is the answer.
The answer is learn to eat fuckin beans.
I really enjoy the use of the word "learn" here. I can see somebody sitting, stressed, in front of a can of beans, just not knowing what to do
This absolutely cracked me up because I've actually been in that scenario. Granted, it was more about the can that I didn't have a means to open than the beans, but still
The big exam comes around, you show up with your pencil and calculator. Nope. Can of beans. Sorry sir, once you've sat for the test there's no leaving. Good luck. 80 college students pounding it against the floor at once.
kid named vegetables
It’s not.
https://youtu.be/V0zCf4Yup34