How Can Antibiotic Resistance Be Reduced In Animals?
Antibiotics are required less frequently when infections are avoided in the first place, which minimizes the risk of resistance developing during treatment. Drug-resistant illnesses can be avoided in a number of methods, including vaccination, proper food preparation, handwashing, and the use of antibiotics only when absolutely required. Furthermore, minimizing infections reduces the spread of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
The CDC collects
information on antibiotic-resistant illnesses, their causes, and whether
certain circumstances (risk factors) contributed to certain persons contracting
a resistant infection. Experts may use this knowledge to build particular
tactics to avoid illnesses and the spread of resistant germs.
Changing how
antibiotics are used is maybe the single most significant measure needed to
dramatically limit the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant diseases.
Antibiotic usage in people, as well as much antibiotic use in animals, is
needless and inappropriate, putting everyone at risk. Stopping even part of the
unneeded and improper use of antibiotics in humans and animals would go a long
way toward halting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Antibiotic
stewardship is the commitment to always use antibiotics responsibly and
safely—only when they're needed to treat disease and to pick the right
medicines and deliver them correctly in every case.
Antibiotic resistance
can be reduced but not halted since it is a natural process in which bacteria
develop. As a result, we'll constantly need new antibiotics to combat resistant
germs, as well as new diagnostic techniques to detect resistance progression.
There are three reasons
why antibiotics should not be phased out of animal husbandry. Allowing animals
to suffer when they get infections that may be cured or avoided with
antibiotics would be cruel. Second, it is uncertain what public health
advantages would result from removing the use of antibiotics in animals for
disease prevention, control, and treatment. More research is needed, but it's
probable that the negative effects on animal welfare and the economy would
outweigh the few benefits received from a full prohibition. Finally, allowing
animals to suffer and/or die from curable and/or avoidable illnesses is not
economically feasible.
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