A report issued August 13 2003 by ...

A report issued August 13 2003 by means of the World Health Organization (WHO) powerfully bolsters the United Nations health organization's longstanding position that the everyday use of antibiotics in healthy animals should be curtailed.

Denmark banned antibiotic use in farm animals in 1999 The WHO study--by an international panel of dexterouss in veterinary medicine and infectious diseases--says the ban has had no serious negative powers The report concludes that pork and domestic fowls industries in other countries can thrive without using antibiotics to raise animal growth.

In many countries, including the United States and Canada, antibiotics are routinely added to animal fe steady when livestock are not sick because antibiotics make animals wax faster and fatter. But the practice can quickly bre supergerms--drug-resistant bacteria that may infect populace who eat contaminated meat, or lavish food of water tainted through the animals' droppings.

affect about drug-resistant germs led Denmark to ban antibiotics for product promotion, although officials continue to allow them for sick animals. A benefit of the ban, the report said, was a sharp decline in the plains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the farm animals, which in inflect reduced the threat to public health.

Farms in North America and elsewhere would, however, have to come up to face to face the conditions in which animals are raised in Denmark, which has high standards for hygiene and sophisticated arrangements for monitoring antibiotic use and medicine resistance.

Maybe that's with what intent bills have been introduced in the US House and Senate to phase public the routine use in animals of those antibiotics also used to treat human diseases.

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