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Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The level of AB use in livestock in various countries is astonishing.
Most european nations have to keep a very strict log of which antibiotics are used, and for what reason.
Meanwhile, until recently India was using Colistin as a growth promoter.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Given the search summary of that one is "an antibiotic medication used as a last-resort treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections", that sounds very bad.