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WHO | United Nations high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance
http://www.who.int/antimicrobial-resistance/events/UNGA-meeting-amr-sept2016/en/Global leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York in September 2016 to commit to leading the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Source: WHO | United Nations high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance
AMR seminar in the European Parliament
Ingo Walterscheid (CEO, Wiking Meat Systems) in front of the EU Parliamentet
The Swedish Axfoundation, working to reduce the use of antibiotic, held a meeting on September 8, 2016 in the European Parliament. Ingo Walterscheid, CEO Wiking Meat System, attended among experts and operators, who discussed the problems of antibiotic resistance and how to reduce use of antibiotics in food production.
The meeting was organized with the Liberals, the Democrats group and the Centre Party, and is part of a high-level meeting in the European Parliament with the UN General Assembly as host.
China’s pork imports more than doubled in March 2016 as environmental regulation slammed the brakes on domestic production for the country’s largest producers.
Source: China’s pork imports booming
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria breeding in the meat we eat
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-breeding-in-the-meat-we-eat-301921181.html
Each year, 23,000 Americans die and 8 million are hospitalized as a result of antibiotic resistant infection, and it has nothing to do with prescription medication.
Source: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria breeding in the meat we eat
U.S. sees first case of bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic | Reuters
U.S. health officials on Thursday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to a last-resort antibiotic, and expressed grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads.
Source: U.S. sees first case of bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic | Reuters
REFILE-RPT-INSIGHT-Battling nightmare infections: US CDC’s plan to beat superbugs | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-health-superbugs-idUSL2N0WV04020150330
With painstakingeffort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by halfthe number of infections caused by an especially deadly type ofsuperbug. Now U.S. health officials want that kind of campaignto go national.
Source: REFILE-RPT-INSIGHT-Battling nightmare infections: US CDC’s plan to beat superbugs | Reuters