Control issues
But the threats are even greater in the developing world, where regulations and enforcement are weaker, says Bernard Vallat, head of the U.N. animal health agency, the OIE.
“More than 100 countries have no appropriate legislation to implement control on those products," he says. In those countries, "there is no control on importation, no control on registration, no control on distribution and use.”
And Vallat says resistant bacteria can travel anywhere in a globalized world.
Experts note that livestock are far from the only source of resistant bacteria. Use and misuse of antibiotics in people is at least as big a problem - perhaps more so.
For people like Tom Dukes, who carries the bacteria in his gut, where the bacteria came from is less important than where they go.
“I kinda live every day knowing it’s still there," he says. "And if it ever gets out again, that they may not have anything to combat it this time.”
It’s a fear that’s growing for patients and doctors around the world.
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