Chinese Government and Bird Flu | Bayosphere

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International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic. China's use of the drug amantadine, which violated international livestock guidelines, was widespread years before China acknowledged any infection of its poultry, according to pharmaceutical company executives and veterinarians.

This is malfeasance on a scale that beggars the imagination. But it's not the only thing of its kind.

For years, with the encouragement of government officials in the United States and other nations that use factory farming methods, meat and poultry producers have been pumping vast amounts of antibiotics into animals. The practice has been part of a longstanding campaign to raise the level of production and save producers money.

The result is stark: Common antibiotics are increasingly useless for humans, and superstrains of bugs are resistant to almost all intervention, a situation that deeply worries the medical community.

China's regime deserves a huge slap for what it's done. But let's remember the context. For cheaper meat and poultry we are taking huge chances -- and nature, ruthlessly efficient, will eventually make us pay for our arrogance.

: Chinese Government and Bird Flu | Bayosphere.

International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic. China's use of the drug amantadine, which violated international livestock guidelines, was widespread years before China acknowledged any infection of its poultry, according to pharmaceutical company executives and veterinarians. This is malfeasance on a scale that beggars the imagination. But it's not the only thing of its kind. For years, with the encouragement of government officials in the United States and other nations that use factory farming methods, meat and poultry producers have been pumping vast amounts of antibiotics into animals. The practice has been part of a longstanding campaign to raise the level of production and save producers money. The result is stark: Common antibiotics are increasingly useless for humans, and superstrains of bugs are resistant to almost all intervention, a situation that deeply worries the medical community. China's regime deserves a huge slap for what it's done. But let's remember the context. For cheaper meat and poultry we are taking huge chances -- and nature, ruthlessly efficient, will eventually make us pay for our arrogance.