Reports of rare superbug jump in US, CDC says

[Brainstormy]

2. Health care workers my foot!

What are they supposed to do, when 80% of the antibiotics sold in the US go to animals, not people! What the increase in superbugs really "highlights" is the fact that the FDA works for Big Pharma and Big Food, not consumers. The subtherapeutic dosing of animals for growth promotion is why more people in the US die of MRSA than AIDS. This will only get worse.

From Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:

The Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences has estimated that the annual cost of treating antibiotic-resistant infections in the United States is $30 billion.

You can help stop the nontherapuetic use of antibiotics on factory farms. Ask your members of Congress to become co-sponsors of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 965/S.1211), a bill that will protect human health by limiting the use of antibiotics in livestock.

To read the report and take action, visit PCRM.org/Antibiotics.

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