Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major global public health problem which has been aggravated by the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in human and animal health as well as the presence of these agents in the environment. AMR in animal pathogens makes disease treatments ineffective, increases the …
Over the 16-year period studied, consumption of antibiotics more than doubled in India Global consumption of antibiotics has soared since the year 2000, stoking calls for new policies to rein in usage – and fueling fears that the worldwide threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs will spiral out of control, researchers …
Antibiotic prescriptions have shot up by 65 percent overall and by 39 percent per person in 15 years, new research reveals. In the period from 2000 to 2015, 24.5 billion prescriptions for the infection-fighting drugs were written a day. This rise comes even as scientists and doctors around the world …
Antibiotic use more than doubled in India between 2000 and 2015, fuelling antibiotic resistance that is making common infections such as E.coli, strep throat, pneumonia and tuberculosis more difficult to treat, according to this new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Antibiotic resistance, driven by …
Scientists have developed a new "rapid test" that produces a cheaper and faster diagnosis on infectious diseases in just three hours thus preventing antibiotic resistances from spreading. Owing to small number of pathogens in a patient's sample, standard practices require up to 72 hours to allow for a reliable result …
E. coli in the wild birds became immune to some drugs within a few months Escherichia coli, a pathogen seen in over 90% of Egyptian vultures that migrate to northwest India to spend the winter, tend to show significant difference in resistance to antibiotics within a single season, a study …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming a serious global problem. It is estimated that it might lead to 10 million deaths per year and loss of outputs worth US $100 trillion by 2050. Antibiotic misuse in food-animal production is one of the key causes of AMR. This study examines select fast …
HYDERABAD: A novel species of a bacterium that produces antibiotic has been discovered by a professor in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and his researchers, the university said on Thursday. "Found in the Buffalo Lake on the UoH campus, the newly discovered bacterium, Planctopirus hydrillae, may provide a solution to …
CSE urges tennis player Sania Mirza in a letter The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has written to tennis player Sania Mirza regarding her association with an advertorial issued by the All India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited (AIPDSPL) recently. Recognising her achievements, the CSE expressed disappointment over …
Drugs and Food Control Organization Tuesday issued an advisory for poultry farm dealers, asking them to stop use of antibiotics in their farms three days prior to supplying chicken to the market. The Kashmir Monitor last week reported that antibiotics in huge quantity were fed to the chicken in poultries …
Each year, Kashmir gets around one crore live chicken from Jammu, Haryana, and Punjab, where the birds are majorly raised on antibiotics. As per the information revealed by Dr Altaf Geelani, Assistant Manager Care of Poultry Organisation, around “25 per cent of four crore chicken” consumed in the Valley annually …
The advertisement by All-India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited refers to the results of a 2014 study of CSE on chicken. New Delhi: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has slammed an advertisement highlighting that no antibiotics are used in chicken as an “eye wash” and alleged that …
A green body has slammed an advertisement highlighting that no antibiotics are used in chicken as an "eye wash" and alleged that the use of antibiotics in poultry sector is "rampant". NEW DELHI: A green body has slammed an advertisement highlighting that no antibiotics are used in chicken as an …
Poultry industry misguiding nation on antibiotic misuse, says NGO New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), on Tuesday accused the domestic poultry industry of twisting facts from one of its earlier studies to show chicken produced in the country was safe for consumption. Terming it a “complete …
A green body today slammed an advertisement highlighting that no antibiotics are used in chicken as an "eye wash" and alleged that the use of antibiotics in poultry sector is "rampant". The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) slammed the All India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited for its …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has slammed the All India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited for its advertisement which appeared today on the front page of a leading national daily, as “complete misrepresentation”. The advertisement refers to the results of a 2014 study conducted by CSE on chicken …
Multinational companies continue to produce and sell unregulated antibiotics in India, worsening the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the country and impeding efforts to fight drug resistance globally, a UK study said. The report, to be made public on Monday by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and Newcastle …
The Hindu and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism unravel how the use of a last-hope antibiotic like colistin is leading to worldwide drug resistance On a farm in Ranga Reddy district near Hyderabad, a clutch of chicks has just been delivered. Some 5,000 birds peck at one another, loitering around …
WHO’s first release of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance reveals high levels of resistance to a number of serious bacterial infections in both high- and low-income countries. WHO’s new Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) reveals widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance among 500 000 people with suspected bacterial infections across 22 …
Alternative therapeutics for infectious diseases is a top priority, but what infections should be the primary targets? At present there is a focus on therapies for severe infections, for which effective treatment is most needed, but these infections are hard to manage, and progress has been limited. Here, we explore …
Srinagar: How safe is the chicken meat that we consume in Kashmir? There’s no knowing, for neither is there any study, nor any monitoring process in the Valley to check the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry, which can lead to antibiotic-resistance among humans, making even simple illnesses incurable. …
