linkedin post 2013-06-06 07:42:15

ANTIBIOTIC POLLUTION. Alexander Fleming changed history by discovering penicillin, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1945. But our over-zealous use of antibiotics, including in high density meat and fish production, has encouraged nasty pathogenic antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These molecules are in our food, and in most water supplies. With a thin pipeline of new antibiotics in trials, public health officials are concerned.

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