[amurmann]

It's not only the use of antibiotics for livestock. In Russian prisons for example TB is a big problem, but there isn't enough money to give every patient the full antibiotic treatment. This results in a patient getting antibiotics for a few days and then the treatment stops before the TB is fully healed. Those are ideal conditions for TB to become resistant against antibiotics. I am sure similar things are happening elsewhere where there is a lack of funding. I am also pretty sure tat so e patients think they are cured and decide to stop treatment premarturly, resulting in the same problem. Link to the Russian prison problem: http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Tuberculosis_in_Russ...