20-03-2013 06:52 AM | United Kingdom

Farmers risk creating superbugs

Health minister Anna Soubry said that in order to protect public health farmers, vets and drug companies need to put a stop to the policy.

The drugs are given to livestock as a preventative measure in order to stop diseases from spreading, even when the animals are perfectly healthy.

But the new bugs that emerge are increasingly developing resistance to the antibiotics, according to the Daily Mail.
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