We speak to Coilin Nunan from ASOAntibiotics about why the overuse of antibiotics in farming contributes to antibioticresistance 💊 AMR WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek WAAW2022
Interview conducted by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Nov 23 2022 Thought LeadersCóilín NunanScientific Adviser the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics As part of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022, we spoke to Coilin Nunan, the Scientific Advisor for the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics, about how antibiotics are used in farming and why the overuse of antibiotics in farming contributes to the problem of antimicrobial resistance.
We also campaign for restrictions on the highest-priority critically important antibiotics like fluoroquinolones and the modern cephalosporins and an end to using the last-resort antibiotic, colistin, in farming.
While antibiotic resistance is already a massive problem, the global projections are that farm antibiotic use will keep increasing. Therefore, antibiotic resistance from farming will keep increasing; we know it is possible to tackle this problem by tackling the excessive use of antibiotics. What is needed is to end all forms of routine antibiotic use, including purely preventative mass medication. The EU has done this at the beginning of this year. On the 28th of January, the EU banned all forms of routine antibiotic use and purely preventative group treatments. Still, most countries worldwide, including the UK, have not done this, and this is a major area where we campaign.
In many ways, antibiotics are used as a productivity tool in farming, and this is what we oppose. We believe that better husbandry should help to reduce antibiotic use. The resistance probably doesn't directly affect wildlife because they aren't fed antibiotics. They aren't treated with antibiotics, but the spread of resistance through the environment and back into the clinic is an issue considered a potentially significant source of antibiotic resistance.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted antimicrobial resistance, and what can the pandemic teach those working within the AR field about dealing with a global health crisis? One of the interesting aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic was that, certainly initially, there were very high levels of antibiotic use in hospitalized patients because doctors were concerned about secondary bacterial infections. But despite this, overall antibiotic use fell significantly in England in 2020.
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