The Rise of Superbugs | Consumer Reports

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Antibiotics Feed to Animals - It's critical to stop the overuse of antibiotics with animal production. It's primarily used to make them grow faster. The major concern is everyone is getting a small dose of antibiotics every time they eat. This is causing resistance to increase and superbugs to grow. Most countries have banned this practice, time for the US to do the same!

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You forgot the most important thing: finish your course of antibiotics once you start! Don't stop taking them once you start feeling better, finish the entire course or some bacteria could survive and evolve.

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I find it difficult to find a good antibiotic soap especially when the name brand ones at Costco like soft soap are antibacterial

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The biggest reason why there are "superbugs" is feeding animals with antibiotics "just in case", so meat is full of them, and we're taking small doses all the time. And of course bacterias have a lot of space for experiments how to beat them in hundreds of billions industrially bred animals. So yes, antibiotics overuse in case of humans is bad, but it's not the most serious issue.