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This story deserves front-page status. Considering that antibiotics add to the cost of food, health care, groundwater cleanup, and the debt of poor nations, this is a potentially revolutionary development. The fact that the presence of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus faecium has decreased with the reduction in antibiotics use in Denmark and that the incidence of diseases […]
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Health & MedicineDanes keeping drugs out of livestock
Reducing the amount of antibiotics given to livestock in Denmark has lowered the amount of drug-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteria in the meat of these animals.
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Health & MedicineIndian encephalitis is traced to measles
An outbreak of fatal encephalitis in India appears to have been caused by a strange form of rashless measles in a majority of the sick children tested.