News

The Wire-October 10, 2019. Clearly, the highest levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals are currently found in China and India, said study author Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Washington and senior research scholar at Princeton University. Mapping resistance trends in food animals across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), […]

Read More

EurekAlert — October 9, 2019. “This paper is the first to track antibiotic resistance in animals globally and it finds that resistance has gone up dramatically during the past 18 years,” said co-author Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar in PEI.

Read More

Axios– September 24, 2019. Meanwhile, a study out last week in Science developed a geospatial model using data from 901 point-prevalence surveys around the world between 2000 and 2018 examining rates of antibiotic resistance in animals and food products in E. coli, Campylobacter spp., non-typhoidal Salmonella, and Staphylococcus aureus. Study co-author Ramanan Laxminarayan says they found there was a triple increase in antibiotic resistance risk in food animals […]

Read More

SciDev– September 24, 2019. Ramanan Laxminarayan, study co-author and founder-director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington, told SciDev.Net: “Immediate actions are required in China and India to mitigate the impact of AMR on both their own animals and citizens, and as part of the wider global community.”

Read More

Modern Farmer– September 22, 2019. “This study shows a remarkable increase in resistance,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, one of the study’s authors and the director for the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, tells Modern Farmer. “We saw almost a three-fold increase in AMR in poultry, cattle, and pigs over that time indicating that, across the world, […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 More

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 More

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 More