date:Dec 18, 2018
Veterinary Research journal, antimicrobial resistance is a public health threat worldwide. There are at least two million resistant infections and at least 23,000 related deaths in the United States each year, its research showed.
The rise of resistant bacteria may lead to a clamp-down on overuse of antimicrobial drugs in Brazil, the world's fourth largest pork producer and exporter, and elsewhere.
U.S. livestock consumes 70 percent of all antibiotics, according to a 2014 Britain-commissioned