Word: antibioticized
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It's the sort of thing any good poultry farmer notices right away: a few of the birds in a so-called grow-out building have started snickering--the chicken equivalent of coughing. A respiratory infection, if that's what they have, could spread to the 20,000 other birds...
Or has it? While enrofloxacin kills the type of bacteria that sickened the chickens, it doesn't quite eliminate a different strain, called Campylobacter, that lives in the intestine. The surviving germs, which don't cause any poultry diseases, quickly multiply and spread the genes that helped them fend off...
Welcome to the harrowing world of antibiotic resistance, where drugs that once conquered everything from pneumonia to tuberculosis are rapidly losing their punch. Chicken Cipro is only the latest example of how humans are burning their pharmacological bridges. Feed-lot operators are dosing their livestock with antibiotics to keep them...
This is a dangerous time for Harvard. We are faced with the opportunity to finally cure a disease that has attacked our University’s system for far too long. The right cure would strike at the root of the problem—not just its current symptoms. Only...
Then came Sept. 11. After the hijack terror followed bioterror - anthrax. Faced with the potential of a widespread public health emergency, U.S. officials scrambled to stockpile Cipro, Bayer AG's patented antibiotic used to treat anthrax. Suddenly the U.S. and Canada - long tough on patent protection - found themselves feeling like...