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Tamar F. Barlam, an infectious-disease physician, leads the antibiotic resistance project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Karen Florini is a senior attorney with Environmental Defense.
Since anthrax, Cipro has become one of the most recognized antibiotics in the world. Bayer, Cipro's patent holder and exclusive supplier in the United States, has entered the limelight as well. In full-page ads in The New York Times, Bayer has proclaimed its role in "answering America's call." The company has agreed, at Washington's insistence, to discount the drug, which is in demand as the only Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for inhaled anthrax. And it has donated millions of tablets to emergency response teams and postal workers.
US Foodborne Illnesses Up Two to Ten Fold,
ISIS Report, November 3, 2001
"Genetic engineered food has increased enormously in the United States since
1994. Figures released at the end of 1999 showed a two to ten-fold rise
in food-related illnesses compared with 1994. A Swedish study throws new
light and raise important questions on the safety of genetic engineered
food, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports."
The perils of animal antibiotics -- Widespread use of drugs on farm herds,
flocks is raising concerns about creation of super microbes, By John
Fauber, Milkwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 4, 2001
"If you bought a chicken at the grocery store this week, it's almost a sure
thing it had been fed antibiotics during its lifetime.
In fact, the routine use of antibiotics in farm animals has become so
widespread that public health advocates fear it is contributing to the
creation of new super strains of drug-resistant diseases that are harmful or
deadly to people."
Studies Find Resistant Bacteria in Meats by Jane Brody in the New York Times,
October 18, 2001
"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are widespread in commercial meats and
poultry and can be found in consumers' intestines, researchers are
reporting. The findings suggest that many food-borne illnesses will not
respond to the usual treatments, and that some cases may even resist all
current drugs."
Eight million Americans will suffer a urinary tract infection this year, nearly all of them women; many
women will have several infections. Now in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, researchers
report that a new strain of bacteria is causing urinary infections around the country. And as NPR's
Richard Knox reports, that new strain is proving difficult to treat.
By Joan Stephenson, PhD, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA),
Volume 286 No. 6, August 8, 2001
The Antibiotic Food-Chain Gang, by Patrice Courvalin, Pasteur Institute, Paris France
Letter to the Editor of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention online magazine "Emerging Infectious Diseases". Appears in the May-June
2001 Issue, with links to earlier correspondence.
Linezolid-Resistant VREF Identified, Reuters Health, April 16, 2001
Editorial from the Washington Post, April 19, 2001
Supergerm Beats New Antibiotic
Associated Press coverage of Harvard Medical researchers article in The Lancet, July 19, 2001
Drugs Used On Livestock Tied To Spread Of Resistant Bacteria
London Free Press, June 25, 2001
Asking for Trouble -- 'Superbug genes are getting into
soil and water. Will we be next?'
News from the New Scientist Magazine, April 21, 2001
Scientists Warn farmers Against Using Antibiotics, CBC News Story, April 9, 2001
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