Could efforts to keep livestock healthy be a deadly threat to human health? Our health and the animal agriculture industry are closely tied — and not just because of our consumption of meat and dairy ...

In January 2018, a report released by the World Health Organization’s newly minted Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System revealed widespread antibiotic resistance among people with suspected ...

New research found that 25% of bedroom dust samples in rural Iowa contained at least one antimicrobial-resistant gene, ...

A new study led by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, dean of the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), has ...

Antibiotic resistance in veterinary medicine is an ever-increasing problem, just as it is in human medicine. Efforts in veterinary medicine to reduce the use of antibiotics to only those necessary can ...

Over the three decades that I have worked in animal health, I have borne witness to the mounting effects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals. Just like in people, while bacterial infections ...

The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised the management of diseases in humans and animals. These medicines proved so effective that they were christened magic bullets owing to their potency in ...

A rising number of antibiotic drugs that are essential for human health are now being sold for use in farm animals, data released by the Food and Drug Administration shows. The upward trend in sales ...

Worldwide, antibiotic resistance is associated with millions of deaths every year, and the World Health Organization warns ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Goats and Sheep being vaccinated [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard] The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised the management ...