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Overuse of Antibiotics Caused Infections by Bug That Killed 29,000 in 1 Year
Overuse of antibiotics made Americans more vulnerable to a strain of bacteria that caused nearly half a million infections and contributed to at least 29,000 deaths in a single year, U.S. public health officials warned in research published on Wednesday. The study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on the Clostridium difficile bacterium, which can cause deadly diarrhea. The findings, published in the...
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And big ag is allowed to keep right on feeding the stuff to critters we will be eating and no one stops them. Jolly.