Australia is on the trail of antibiotic resistance from livestock.
In Britain? A cross between hoping it will go away if it is ignored and smothered with positive PR and veterinarians hopelessly arguing the toss and spinning furiously.
What they miss is that the hospitals are looking for someone to blame for a deteriorating situation and the vets are the obvious candidate.
Quite aside from the rights and wrongs, the British vets are massively outnumbered by one of the largest organisations in the world. The National Health Service people also have more and better scientists and resources.
If the veterinarians were in the right, they would be in trouble. But as they are wrong, they stand no chance and are merely prolonging the agony and compounding the guilt.
A decade of cover-up is too long.
Full article here, audio interview here
Health expert calls for investigation of antibiotics in foodchain
Updated November 25, 2011 19:27:00
An emergency medicine expert has called for an investigation into the potential health threat of animals being fed antibiotics to promote growth. Dr Thomas Gottlieb the President of the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases is worried about how much of the drugs are entering the food chain.
