Martin J. Blaser
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“Today, an estimated 70–80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States are used for the single purpose of fattening up farm animals:”
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
“As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is inevitable.”
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
“Along with better training, pediatricians need better pay. Paradoxically, physicians involved in the primary care of our children—the doctors on the front lines who receive tens of thousands of visits every day from parents and their children—are among the lowest paid of all physicians in the United States. Something is wrong with our system when the doctor who performs a brief diagnostic procedure—some form of X-ray, for example, or a fifteen-minute operation—is paid many times more than the doctors making crucial decisions about our children’s health.”
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
― Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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