Unchecked antibiotic use in animals may affect global human health

Whooping cough is recently making a come-back. It is becoming resistant to vaccines. I wonder if animal antibiotic use may be an underlying cause...

Whooping cough may be becoming resistant to vaccines

We've been having a similar problem in the U.S. with honeybees and the antibiotic tetracycline. Most countries have banned the use of the antibiotic already. However, we seem to think that as long as we "regulate" the use, then we'll be just fine. :confused:

Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes

It is not just use in animals that is the problem. there is also a big problem in countries that allow over the counter purchase of antibiotics. when people can just buy a packet of them they treat them like aspirin, and don't finish the course. Also they use antibiotics for a virus . . .

In a few years we could be seeing things wee thought we had just about beaten coming back again because they are resistant to all current antibiotics.

Hmm - Alexa - Seems you post a tad late for the thanks button yourself, eh?

We've gone beyond "problem" in the US. Doctors perscribe antibiotics even for things they know antibiotics don't kill - so it's worse than just animal doping. Antibiotics don't touch flu - but there's STILL doctors that will prescribe you bottles of them for it. Many bacterias once affected by them are now immune.

There is a fight to stop animal doping - that will help, but what concerns me to no end is the amount of drugs now found in our water. They say - well, there's just a little bit - but a little is enough to interact with other things people are taking, and it's enough for some them to accumulate in your body to a dose that WILL do something.

I would like to beat the snot out of people for taking drugs that aren't absolutely necessary for them - they don't realize that they flush the residual and eventually everyone else is taking their damned drugs, too - whether they want them or not. I'm furious over this issue and never live where there are high populations to stay away from water doping. This is nothing but corruption at it's most toxic.

Whew - I needed that one.

Another example of too much money and politics in politics,
and not enough science.

Bigger, better, faster, cheaper paradigm that has driven the chemical agricultural model is far beyond broken; many good documentaries that have covered this and related issues over the last several years. The argument at its root is chemicals vs. natural models.

Something interesting to consider. While most of us assume vaccines helped rid us of many diseases that used to kill so many, its not true in the sense we think it is. In fact, you can track the decline of many of these diseases with the improvement and proliferation of farming technology, all before vaccines became common. Better food = less disease.

The paradigm that helped bring civilization to better health, like most paradigms, exceeded its capacity, and now many are nutritionally deficient again in spite of the unprecedented access to "food." Only this time, its not just a lack of quality foods, its the addition of environmental toxins, chemicals in almost all food that is packaged, and of course, the myriad of antibiotics we are exposed to through the animals we eat.

Vote with your food dollars!