date:Oct 17, 2018
national team from Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Germany in studying wastewater samples from three canals in the capital Ouagadougou, a city of 2.2 million inhabitants.
After identifying a wide range of antibiotic resistance genes in the water, they concluded that using wastewater for urban agriculture in the city posed a high risk of spreading bacteria and antimicrobial resistance among humans and animals.
With the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa expected to rise from 400 million (2010) t