Common ailments can turn into killers when the bugs become immune to more common prescription drugs available. This growing resistance to antibiotics has become a problem worldwide, according to recent research. World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan stressed that resistance is “reaching dangerously high levels.” Resistance can occur naturally as germs mutate. But, overuse […]
In December 2013, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released its report, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the US, which detailed the growing dangers of antibiotic resistance across the United States. According to the report, more than two million people become infected with some form of antibiotic resistant bacteria each year, and 23,000 die as a […]
Is it possible that antibiotic resistance bacteria being overused in our food supply? It is indeed possible and may be a bigger threat than most thought. If you have not gotten foodborne illness in the last two years that is a good sign. If food is properly cooked at a temperature above the danger zone it […]