Health
How weed-killers are ‘accelerating’ the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria – The New Daily
Weed-killers are making antibiotic medicines less effective, evidence shows, moving us ever closer to a dangerous post-antibiotic world.
There is accumulating evidence that weed-killer could be making antibiotic medicines less effective contributing to our slide towards a post-antibiotic world, where a cut on the finger is a potentially lethal event.
Many people believe the issue of microbial resistance to antibiotics is driven by GPs handing out penicillin and the like for every cough and sniffle. If we all cut back, things will be okay, right?
Not so simple.
As Jack Heinemann, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the …
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