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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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Today is a relatively slow news day in Skeeterville. Not so much
because nothing is going on, more so, because no-one seems to want to
share what is going on.
Anyway, because it's a slow day anyway, it will be a great time to
"revisit" something that was sent out in a previous Gazette. >>>
Gary,
As a food animal veterinarian I felt compelled to try and clear the
air on some recent misinformation discussed in the Gazette. In the
May 2nd edition Denise stated that "meat raised with antibiotics can
cause the human who consumes it to have antibiotic resistance". Most
drug resistance in bacteria you might face comes from overuse of
antibioticsin people, not animals. If we want toreducethe
prevalence of antibiotic resistance we need look no further
thanour own medicine cabinets. A major cause of antibiotic
resistance occurs when people do not finish the prescriptions their
doctors have prescribed for them. How often have your subscribers
gotten a prescription from their doctor and started feeling better 48
hours laterand saved the rest of the prescription for another illness
at a later date?Every time a personfails to finish a
prescription they leave the illness causing bacteria behind to reproduce
and possibly developresistance. Thisis a much greater cause of
antibiotic resistance thanfood animal antibiotic use hasever
been.Whenyour doctor gives you a prescription for a certain
length oftime they are doing it for a reason.
Another very important cause of antibiotic resistanceis again
in the human medicine area. Too often the newest antibiotics are
prescribed when some older antibiotics would have done just fine.
These new antibiotics take yearsdo develop andthere are fewer and
fewer new antibiotics being developed because ittakes so long todo
research and development as well as jumpingthrough all the FDA hoops.
While it is true that antibiotics are used in the food animal
industry (beef, dairy, swine, poultry), there are very strict guidelines
for their use with regards to milk and slaughter withdrawal times as set
by the Food and Drug Administration.There are feedgrade
antibiotics fed to animals in low doses to prevent infection, but there
is no firm link between antibiotics used in animals
andresistantbacteria in people. Our goal in animal
agricultureis to provide the public with the safestfood supply in
the world.
The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, which
regularly tests bacteria from animals, people, and retail meats for
signs of resistance to 17 common drugs says so far there is no evidence
that drug resistance is spreading from food to people. Antibiotic use
in animal agriculture is a very small problem in the area of antibiotic
resistance and trying to blame it as the main cause ifvery
irresponsible and misguided.
I hopeyou find this acceptable for print in the Gazette.
Respectfully yours,
Dr. Rodney A. Gourde DVM
Albany,MN <<<>====
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seems to me.
Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.
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