Dr. Ron DeHaven, AVMA CEO, discusses antimicrobials and “super bugs”

Dr. Ron DeHaven, Chief Executive Officer of the AVMA, responds to advertisements and blogs that claim the use of antimicrobials in livestock is helping create drug-resistant “super bugs,” diseases that don’t respond to antibiotics or other drugs, in humans. Dr. DeHaven explains that while the AVMA is worried about drug-resistant pathogens in humans there is evidence that antimicrobials in livestock play only an exceedingly small part in creating them.

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