Industrial Chicken Farming Is Supercharging the Spread of a Dangerous Foodborne Bacterium
Researchers found industrial poultry production has increased Campylobacter movement more than 100 times and helped strains gain resistance-linked traits, the study said.
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How Factory Farms Supercharge Harmful Bacteria
Intensive farming, where animals are kept in close quarters, creates environments that encourage the evolution of harmful bacteria and other pathogens so that they gain traits making it easier to infect people and more difficult to cure, a new study suggests.Hygiene and welfare standards are often low on industrial farms, also called factory farms, and the rising widespread use of antimicrobials has led to concerns that overuse in animal farming…
Industrial Chicken Farming Is Supercharging the Spread of a Dangerous Foodborne Bacterium
The global expansion of chicken farming has created conditions that allow Campylobacter to spread, mix and adapt more readily. Commercial poultry farms now hold billions of chickens, creating a vast habitat where bacteria can move, mix and adapt. An analysis from the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research at the University of Oxford found that [...]
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