Britons at risk as rivers ‘awash’ with antibiotic-resistant superbugs linked to livestock waste 🔴 Genes indicating resistance to antibiotics were found downstream from so-called “factory farms” raising pigs and chickens as well as in waste from cattle...
, with the UK Health Security Agency warning that resistance is emerging against even the newest antibiotics.
World Animal Protection, which commissioned the research alongside the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics and the BIJ, said the findings reinforced the case for far greater reductions in antibiotic use in farming. The findings are based on a laboratory analysis of samples taken from waterways near a dozen poultry and pig farms, including locations in Norfolk and the Wye Valley, which has in recent years seen a dramatic increase in chicken production with some 20m birds now raised in the River Wye’s Herefordshire catchment. Waste sampled directly from four cattle units and a chicken farm in Sussex was also analysed.
Campaigners said they were particularly concerned by the separate presence in samples relating to pig, poultry and cattle farms of E.coli and S.aureus strains which are resistant to two “last-resort” antibiotics, in particular a medication called cefotaxime used in E.coli infections. Superbugs can then reach humans through fish and molluscs caught in contaminated water or crops grown with contaminated manure. Even washing or swimming in contaminated water can put people at risk.
The risks posed by superbug pollution are underlined by separate Freedom of Information records obtained by the BIJ which show that
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