ApocaDocs: Transporting Broiler Chickens Could Spread Antibiotic-resistant Organisms

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	Transporting Broiler Chickens Could Spread Antibiotic-resistant Organisms http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1227636708 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found evidence of a novel pathway for potential human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria from intensively raised poultry-- driving behind the trucks transporting broiler chickens from farm to slaughterhouse. A study by the Hopkins researchers found increased levels of pathogenic bacteria, both susceptible and drug-resistant, on surfaces and in the air inside cars traveling behind trucks that carry broiler chickens.

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'Doc Jim says:

Eat my .... antibiotic-resistant dust.