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Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Public HealthDoctors depend on antibiotics to treat illnesses caused by bacteria, from pneumonia to meningitis and other life-threatening infections. The effectiveness of many antibiotics has begun to wane, the legacy of decades of unnecessary overuse in both human medicine and agriculture.Keep Antibiotics Working is a coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane and other advocacy groups with more than eleven million members dedicated to eliminating a major cause of antibiotic resistance: the inappropriate use of antibiotics in food animals. For a general overview of the issue, see the Campaign's fact sheets: Antibiotic Resistance - An Emerging Public Health Crisis (an annotated version is also available) and Antibiotic Resistance and Animal Agriculture.
PBS story on antibiotic resistance
Click here or on the image above to view this Quicktime video.
Share Your ExperienceIf you or a family member has been ill with an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, please fill out the KAW Share Your Experience form. Your information will be completely confidential. Please keep in mind that we are unable to provide medical treatment or expertise to you at this time.
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ACT NOW
Urge Congress to pass legislation that will keep antibiotics working. ACT NOW!
* January 27, 2010
Michael Pollan makes an appearance on The Oprah Show. Watch the clip.
* December 21, 2009
Recent Salmonella outbreaks show the dangers of FDA's inaction on antibiotic resistance. Read KAW's press release for more info.
* November 23, 2009
KAW calls on the FDA to reinstate its ban on the extralabel use of cephalosporins in livestock. Read the letter to FDA.
* October 14, 2009
Dr. Margaret Mellon from the Union of Concerned Scientists is interviewed by Vermont Public Radio on the antibiotics in livestock issue. Listen here.
* October 13, 2009
What Can Danish Hogs Teach Us About Antibiotics? Find out at the Huffington Post!
* October 8, 2009
Rep. Slaughter and other members of Congress urge President Obama to direct the FDA to ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock. Read the letter.
* September 9, 2009
Family farmers and sustainable agriculture groups support the passage of PAMTA. Read their letter to the Obama Administration.
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