{"id":179279,"date":"2018-04-01T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/01\/ban-agricultural-use-of-antibiotics\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:37:00","slug":"ban-agricultural-use-of-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/01\/ban-agricultural-use-of-antibiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Agricultural Use of Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a frighteningly short time, an antibiotic resistant gene, MCR-1, has spread around the world.<br \/>Investigations have revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antibiotic-resistant-mcr-1-gene-spreads-worldwide-from-chinese-pig-farms\">it originated in the antibiotics inundated world of agriculture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MCR-1\">mcr-1<\/a> gene, which helps bacteria resist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colistin\">colistin<\/a> \u2013 one of the few remaining antibiotic drugs of last resort that still work \u2013 has now reached hospitals all across the world. <\/p>\n<p>And thanks to new research, we now have more evidence of where it came from \u2013 pig farms in China.<\/p>\n<p>While experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-the-superbug-experts-have-been-dreading-has-just-reached-the-us\">had previously thought<\/a> the gene developed on Chinese pig farms, due to their extensive use of colistin on the animals, the latest study offers more evidence to back this idea up.<\/p>\n<p>It pinpoints the start of the spread to sometime in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The speed at which mcr-1 spread globally is indeed shocking,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/news-articles\/0318\/260318-antibiotic-resistance-gene\">says lead researcher<\/a> Francois Balloux, from University College London (UCL) in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>By  sequencing the genomes of 110 bacterial strains and comparing them to  existing genomic data, the team identified a large dataset of 457 mcr-1  positive genome sequences, taken from humans and farm animals spread  across five continents.<\/p>\n<p>That enabled them to show exactly where  mcr-1 had emerged from, and how it spread globally \u2013 attaching itself to  various bacterial pathogens by &#8220;hitchhiking&#8221; on different mobile  genetic elements.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The supporters of antibiotic use on livestock have always said that no one ever showed that antibiotic resistance has originated from their use on live stock.<\/p>\n<p>Not any more.<\/p>\n<p>This needs to be banned world wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a frighteningly short time, an antibiotic resistant gene, MCR-1, has spread around the world.Investigations have revealed that it originated in the antibiotics inundated world of agriculture: The mcr-1 gene, which helps bacteria resist colistin \u2013 one of the few remaining antibiotic drugs of last resort that still work \u2013 has now reached hospitals all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[525,440,437],"class_list":["post-179279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-medical","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}