- September 20, 2019Antibiotic resistance in farm animals tied to global hot spots.
CIDRAP-September 20, 2019. “When we talk about antibiotic resistance in low- and middle-income countries, there is a lot of speculation, and a lot of expert opinion,” said Van Boeckel, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology and a visiting scholar with the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. “We tend to prefer data […]
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- September 20, 2019Alarm as antimicrobial resistance surges among chickens, pigs and cattle
Nature– September 20, 2019. “For the first time, we have some evidence that antibiotic resistance [in farm animals] is rising, and is rising fast in low- and middle-income countries,” says Thomas Van Boeckel, an epidemiologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who co-authored the analysis. He says that governments should take action against […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 19, 2019Spike in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Threatening Global Meat Supply.
Courthouse News Service-September 19, 2019. In their study published in the journal Science, the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policies (CDDEP) warns of a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat. When animals are overexposed to antibiotics, they can develop antibiotic-resistant infections which can then be passed to humans.
Read moreRead more Read More - September 19, 2019Antibiotic resistance in food-animals growing.
The Times of India– September 19, 2019. The other hotspots include China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa, says a review study jointly done by Princeton University and Delhi-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy and published in Science journal on Thursday night.
Read moreRead more Read More - September 19, 2019Farm Animals Are the Next Big Antibiotic Resistance Threat.
Wired– September 19, 2019. “Everyone talks about antibiotic resistance in humans, but no one has been talking about antibiotic resistance in animals,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, DC, and the paper’s senior author. “Yet there are far more animals than humans on the planet, and they […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 19, 2019Landmark Science study: Increasing global antibiotic resistance in food animals requires immediate action
In a first, researchers from CDDEP, ETH Zurich, Princeton University, and Université Libre de Bruxelles mapped global trends in antimicrobial resistance rates among food animals in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018.
Read moreRead more Read More - September 6, 2019Doctor Driven Innovation: How MedTech players are transforming the Indian healthcare sector.
Entrepreneur India– September 6, 2019. According to a recent study by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in the US there are at least 600,000 doctor shortage in India, especially in rural India. Along with this problem, archaic infrastructure and limited resources are among the major factors compromising the quality of healthcare […]
Read moreRead more Read More - August 20, 2019Drug company representatives are giving ‘quack’ doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics.
Independent– August 20, 2019. Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), said: “When you consider that there are five times the number of rural medical practitioners in India as there are trained medical doctors, it should come as no surprise that the majority of antibiotics reach patients through this channel. […]
Read moreRead more Read More - August 19, 2019Drug company reps give quack doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics.
The Bureau Investigates– August 19, 2019. Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), said: “When you consider that there are five times the number of rural medical practitioners in India as there are trained medical doctors, it should come as no surprise that the majority of antibiotics reach patients through […]
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