Tag: superbugs
How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs...
There is a bigger issue here too—one that poses an existential threat to human health. Farms like this are central to the emergence and spread of so-called “superbugs.”
Big Pharma’s pollution is creating deadly superbugs while the world looks...
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production.
It’s official: KFC goes drug-free to fight superbug crisis
The transition to responsible antibiotics use in the chicken industry has happened in the span of just four years, proving that where there is a will, there is a way.
Superbugs killing twice as many people as government says
We reach more than 5,000 deaths just with resistant E.coli alone. If we add in the other resistant bugs we get to almost 12,000 deaths.
Another scary superbug has been found on an American hog farm
Researchers went looking for one type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, only to find one that had no reason to be there.
Revealed: How Dirty Production of NHS Drugs Helps Create Superbugs
Active ingredients used in antibiotics get into the local soil and water systems, leading to bacteria in the environment becoming resistant to the drugs.
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Workers in 600 cities to mobilize against ‘billionaire takeover’ in massive May Day protests
Nationwide demonstrations set to challenge Trump administration’s pro-wealth policies, mass arrests, and immigrant crackdowns as unions and grassroots groups unite across all 50 states.
Medicare for All returns to Congress as GOP pushes Medicaid cuts and corporate tax...
As Sanders and progressives reintroduce Medicare for All with growing support, Republican lawmakers propose historic Medicaid cuts to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
Amazon walks back tariff transparency plan after Trump calls Bezos
After reports surfaced that Amazon might show consumers how much tariffs contribute to product prices, Trump intervened personally—and the plan was scrapped within hours.
What’s preventing a united front against the Trump regime?
"The predatory, extreme, and dictatorial actions of the Trump administration call for an all-out commensurate response, which so far has been terribly lacking from the Democratic Party.”
The Vietnam and Gaza wars shattered young illusions about US leaders
Six decades later, it took much less time for young Americans to turn decisively against their government’s key role of arming Israel’s war on Gaza.