Roads pave the way for the spread of superbugs
It’s not just antibiotic use that affects the spread of resistant bacteria and their associated diseases. It’s also the roads:
“Our results show it’s not just the individual’s antibiotic use that affects antibiotic resistance. Other important factors that affect the spread of antibiotic resistance are the rates at which people introduce new strains due to movement in and out of the region, as well as poor water quality and sanitation that allow for the transmission of antibiotic resistant strains.
We focus so much on the individual, and if they do or don’t take antibiotics, but we’re learning more and more that there’s a broader environmental and social context in which antibiotic resistance happens.
(via Univ. of Michigan, image by Fathom “All Streets”, a map of the U.S. drawn via its roads)
Source: ns.umich.edu
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