What’s the link? Food, human health, livestock, environment, and antimicrobial resistance What’s the link? Food, human health, livestock, environment, and antimicrobial resistance
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2021
Medicines which aim to relieve pain and suffering, may cure us of diseases and avert untimely deaths, are at increasing risk of becoming ineffective against disease-causing microbes. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when microbes such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to medicines. This makes common infections harder to treat, more expensive to treat, more difficult to treat, and increases the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.