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Campylobacter

It is interesting to see that the people infected were from England where antibiotics and growth promotants have been withdrawn from use in poultry for other than disease situations for the past 10 years.  

I have not seen a similar trend for the data collected in the US. Part of the reason for the lack of a link with poultry has always been that poultry is not consumed in a less than well done manner which tends to eliminate the bacterial infection.  It makes you wonder what is going on in the UK with the handling of the meat prior to cooking.  That might be a bigger story than simply assuming that the problem is with feeding of antibiotics to animals.  

Another hypothesis could be that the animals have increased numbers of bacteria than previously found.  It was assumed that removing antibiotics from the feed would make the meat more "wholesome".  Maybe it has had the reverse effect and allowed more bacteria to be present on the the processed animals. Perhaps the animals previously feed the antibiotic had decreased bacterial numbers present on the carcass (no slaughtered animal is sterile)and was therefore "more wholesome" than what we are currently producing.  On While antibiotic-resistant bugs flourish, a House subcommittee buries its head posted 1 year, 1 month ago 8 Responses