The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently found that supermarket chicken can carry antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter, a germ responsible for more than 2 million cases of diarrhea and 120 deaths in the United States each year. Although most people get better in 10 days or less without antibiotics, a group of antibiotics used to treat Campylobacter and other are essential for treatment of the elderly, pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems. Because these antibiotics were recently routinely used in confined poultry production systems, where disease is a problem, we’re now battling antibiotic-resistant bugs in humans.
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