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Investigation: Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million UTIs

July 11, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment

So, there’s this thing. A big project. An investigative project, actually. I’ve been working on it for months, and finally I can tell you about it, because it all just published, in various venues, today.

I’ve been working with a great new group, the Food and Environment Reporting Network — one of the grant-funded journalism organizations that have arisen in the wake of the collapse of mainstream journalism — on an important, under-reported topic. Which is: Over the past decade, a group of researchers in several countries have been uncovering links between the use of antibiotics in chicken production and the rising occurrence of resistance in one of the most common bacterial infections in the world.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: antibiotics, chicken, E. coli, food, food policy, Resistance, Science Blogs, The Atlantic

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