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Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US
(arstechnica.com)
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Just to be clear, a little googling around about the drugs in question seems to indicate major use of Ceftriaxone (the front line antibiotic for gonorrhea) and its analogues in factory farming.
Reuters: Special Report: Powerful antibiotic for cows often misused by farmers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-farmaceuticals-ceftiofur-specialrepor/special-report-powerful-antibiotic-for-cows-often-misused-by-farmers-idUSKCN0JJ03T20141205
So what's really distressing here to me is that this likely isn't even from human overuse, and this affects diseases other than just gonorrhea.
Antibiotic use in pig farming and its associated factors in L County in Yunnan, China: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025606/
Personal Note: This is not meant to single out China for anything, antibiotic use is out of control for farmers all over the planet. This was just one of the first results that came up for "ceftriaxone farming."
It's really distressing how factory farming is making a huge impact on the ability of antibiotics to continue to be effective.
animal farming is the worst: methane production which is a more potent grennhouse gaz. antibiotic resistance..its messed up!
Water and land use (for growing feed crops) are insane as well.