Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social

Will this not lead to antibiotic resistance the same way it has in cattle?

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

While I cannot offer any scientific analysis of human antibiotic use, I can comment on the history of cattle antibiotics. Every steer at a feedlot is injected with antibiotics, and have since the 1950s, so the sheer volume and duration drove the bovine-born resistance over the decades.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

You planning on taking them every day? For months or years at a time? Or preventing people from actually finishing a prescribed course? That’s how you create antibiotic resistance, most of which has happened in the agriculture sector, where abx are poorly or non-regulated. 1/2

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