The use of antibiotics in healthy farm animals must stop, says the World Health Organisation. – Filepic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged farmers to stop using antibiotics in healthy animals (including fish) to help ensure the drugs remain effective in fighting life-threatening diseases in humans. Overuse and misuse of these drugs in animals and humans is contributing to the growing threat of superbugs, which become immune to existing drugs and allow minor injuries and common infections to become deadly.
“A lack of effective antibiotics is as serious a security threat as a sudden and deadly disease outbreak,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement launching the UN agency's new recommendations. “Strong, sustained action across all sectors is vital if we are to turn back the tide of antimicrobial resistance and keep the world safe,” he added.
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