The Spread of Superbugs

Posted by Jimalakirti in Evolution
at 10:44 am on Sunday, 7 March 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07kristof.html?th&emc=th

Until three months ago, Thomas M. Dukes was a vigorous, healthy executive at a California plastics company. Then, over the course of a few days in December as he was planning his Christmas shopping, E. coli bacteria ravaged his body and tore his life apart.

Mr. Dukes is a reminder that as long as we’re examining our health care system, we need to scrutinize more than insurance companies. We also need to curb the way modern agribusiness madly overuses antibiotics, leaving them ineffective for sick humans.

(New York Times, March 6, 2010)

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