Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment | Alison Franklin

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Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment

Alison Franklin, a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University, explored the pressing issue of antibiotic resistance in our environment and how resistance genes travel through point and nonpoint sources in water in her presentation titled "Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment."

We may think of environmental contaminants simply as litter or pesticides, but the category actually includes pharmaceuticals, human hormones, microplastics, antibiotics and resistance genes. Although they are thought to help humans when we are sick, they are getting into our environment and causing an effect.

"There has been work showing that it is not just antibiotics that lead to antibiotic resistance, but there may be other compounds in conjunction with antibiotics or even by themselves that lead to the emergence of antibiotic resistance," noted Franklin. "It is not just one thing. There are many different factors that play into this."

Antibiotics reach the environment through point and nonpoint sources. Point sources include municipal wastewater, where human activity directly affects placement in the environment. A nonpoint source may be runoff water, something that cannot be controlled in a direction. Antibiotic hotspots may be places where animal manure and waste runs off into a water source, or waste treatment plans with sewage, which are not always designed to properly treat it.

"Reuse of wastewater may be used for spray irrigation," said Franklin. "If you go west where there are more arid regions, or California where there are water shortages, we are starting to see the reuse of wastewater so that is a concern and also considered a point source. When you are talking about antibiotics in the environment and how it is possibly impacting human population, animal population, or just cycling through the environment, the focus is on water
because it is cyclical."

Antibiotics cycle through the environment by way of water. The body can only metabolize so much of the antibiotic content, and then excretes the rest. Animals and people receive an antibiotic, release it into either a point or nonpoint source, where it then goes into the soil and groundwater. From there, it may go into drinking water treatment and then come back into human and animal contact. Resistance can occur when applying manure to soil, where it can
affect soil organisms and disrupt the nitrogen cycle.

"What are the effects in humans and mammals? We really don't know, and that's why having these types of symposiums bringing together people from the medical field, research, and environmental research are very important," noted Franklin.
There are so many factors to this cycle that researchers like Alison Franklin cannot look at just one area to know if there is an impact.

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We are seeing unprecedented changes in the earth’s environmental and physical processes. Climate change, air pollution, reduced availability of clean water, and persistent toxic chemicals threaten human, animal, and environmental health and well-being.

To build a shared interdisciplinary vision of “health” and serve as a catalyst for positive change, Phipps Conservatory brings together leaders to explore global and local environmental issues and their effects on human, animal and environmental health through the One Health Initiative. One Health is a movement that is forging a new level of collaboration among physicians, veterinarians, scientific-health and environmentally-related disciplines. Thought leaders from disparate fields promote strategies to expand interdisciplinary understanding and communication in all aspects of healthcare for humans, animals and the environment.

[richbright]

Surprisingly this is the first video I've seen on this topic. Years ago when informed of antibiotic resistants and the overuse in the medical field purposely restricting the use to absolutely necessary minimal use.
I hadn't considered the discharge into the environment or the possibility of effects on all life. It wasn't until becoming aware of the expanded and extensive use with Cows, Chickens and Swine especially in ? feedlots? With the animals being forced ever closer and the amounts of antibiotics being used. The concern was in consuming increasing the populist resistance.
I did not consider the body's waste and absorption untill listening to a lecture on Estrogen in the environment changing genders. Upon becoming aware of glyphosate and its environmental damages did I start bringing all these contributors together. Those trained and studied scientists developers of these environmentally destructive products haven't been honestly evaluating the harms.
The UNITED STATES CORP. and the Food and Drug Administration are completely culpable.
Now looking at the correlation and our present economic collapse it makes perfect sense in this Capitalistic System.
What Are The Five Purposes Of Government?
1. Protect Rights. Right to fair trial, Right to vote, Freedom of speech.
2. Promote Rule of Law. Enforce laws fairly and ensure public safety.
3. Prepare for Common Defense. ...
4. Support the Economic System. …
5. Provide Public Services.
Now present reader if you aren't aware of the 200 trillions of (Unfunded) Liabilities hidden from the people ( pensions) or the 69% decline of our fertility since 1992 then please do some searching.
In 1971 only one in sixty people needed government assistance. Today it's one in Six!
Wealthcare and why you are paying with you life!
So who is responsible?? The Food and Drug Administration, Your Doctor!!!
You my friend unknowingly pay these (())) to make you sick! Then you are made to pay again for the management of the infliction!!!
Notice billions of dollars spent on curring maladies!!!
Never a cure!!! (( No Profit))
Manage the sickness with symptom suppressing drugs!!

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So why drugs or pharmaceutical are not stop and still use