Farm Animals Breed Antibiotic Resistance
Pigs (Photo: Edmund Yeo/Flickr)
India isn’t the only source of these lethal bacteria. They are present all over the world. These bugs and their genes are spreading so rapidly around the world that some scientists regard the resistance genes as a new kind of environmental contaminant.
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