Why are antibiotics overprescribed? (7)

21 June, 2022

FYI, antibiotics have been given to farm animals in the United States for the last 80 years:

https://www.consumerreports.org/drugs-in-food-production/beef-raised-wit...

Antibiotics are also added to consumer products:

https://source.wustl.edu/2019/02/chemical-added-to-consumer-products-imp...

CDC's guideline on antibiotics:

https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/food.html

Enku

HIFA profile: Enku Kebede-Francis (PHD, MS, MEd) is an advisor in global health governance. She has worked for the United Nations (UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA and UNDPI); was an Assistant Professor at Tufts University Medical School/Department of Public Health; and, a Visiting Scientist at the USDA’s Center for Human Nutrition Research Center for Aging and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Medical School. She also designed and implemented preventive health programs promoting women’s health and tobacco cessation programs in Croatia and worked on addiction prevention programs in Florida and Massachusetts, USA. Her professional interests include preventing scurvy and childhood blindness in developing countries using micronutrients. An advocate for primary healthcare for all as a right, she published a textbook in 2010, Global health Disparities: closing the gap through good governance.