• Compounding the cure: How our overzealous efforts to zap infections could be making animals — and humans — sicker

  • Apr 24 2025
  • Length: 24 mins
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Compounding the cure: How our overzealous efforts to zap infections could be making animals — and humans — sicker

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    Dr. Scott Weese is a veterinary internal medicine specialist, chief of infection control and director of the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College. Weese is a member of the Global Leaders Group on antimicrobial resistance and has helped craft antimicrobial use guidelines for veterinarians in Canada.

    Further reading:

    • The global threat of antibiotic resistance
    • At the UN, world leaders are negotiating the biggest health issue you’ve never heard of
    • Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance, study shows
    • Do I need that antibiotic?
    • Veterinary medicine is key to overcoming antimicrobial resistance
    • The link between pets, people and antimicrobial resistance
    • Canada introduces new guidelines to tackle antimicrobial resistance

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