Expert: We took antibiotics for granted
23 April 2019
60 Minutes traveled to India with Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy and a senior research scholar at Princeton University. While superbugs can emerge from anywhere, he says developing countries create the “perfect storm” for antibiotic resistance. In addition to selling antibiotics over the counter, the use of antibiotics to promote growth in animals is widespread.
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