How much over use of anti biotics (and related issues) is from humans and how much of it is from farming? Is a human taking antibiotics for 3 days a year really the issue when farmers use it like it’s straw on a daily basis?
Farming is a factor for sure, but the kind of multiresistant bacteria being bred in farms are usually a bigger issue for the farms than for humans. Zoonotic diseases exist of course, but most of those bacteria do not infect humans and there is much less opportunities for diseases to spread to humans from a farm. Places like hospitals overusing antibiotics are far more dangerous for human health, as all the germs there are human ones and because there are a lot of opportunities for human to human transmission.
But as I said, it’s not that we should only reduce antibiotic overuse in humans. Overuse by farms is a massive problem as well. One doesn’t exclude the other.
How much over use of anti biotics (and related issues) is from humans and how much of it is from farming? Is a human taking antibiotics for 3 days a year really the issue when farmers use it like it’s straw on a daily basis?
Farming is a factor for sure, but the kind of multiresistant bacteria being bred in farms are usually a bigger issue for the farms than for humans. Zoonotic diseases exist of course, but most of those bacteria do not infect humans and there is much less opportunities for diseases to spread to humans from a farm. Places like hospitals overusing antibiotics are far more dangerous for human health, as all the germs there are human ones and because there are a lot of opportunities for human to human transmission.
But as I said, it’s not that we should only reduce antibiotic overuse in humans. Overuse by farms is a massive problem as well. One doesn’t exclude the other.