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As a challenge a Dutch research: http://www.vwa.nl/onderwerpen/risicobeoordelingen/bestand/22...

From the abstract (freely translated): "... guessed is that a third to half of resistance encountered in germs within humans is of agricultural origin."

Important is that not the antibiotics are transferred from animals to humans but the already resistant bacteria.

A short summary is here: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/08/31/Antibiotic-resist...



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