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by zabzonk 1256 days ago
i am not a doctor, i am a programmer, i used to be a microbiologist. the big problem with stuffing domestic or wild animals or humans with antibiotics for no good reason (ie without testing if they actually have an infection that the antibiotic can or should treat) is that it encourages the development of antibiotic resistance in _all_ bacteria in the treated animal/human.

it's only been 100 years since the very first development of effective antibiotics. before this, bacterial diseases were deadly. if we go on with this misuse, they will become deadly again.