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I voted in favour of this resolution because I share the concern about the growing resistance of pathogens to antimicrobial agents. Incorrect, unnecessary and often excessive use of antimicrobials and the use of antibiotics to treat humans or in animal husbandry allow bacteria to develop resistance to these agents. We are thus creating a time bomb which could send us back to the time before antibiotics had been discovered. In those days a simple cold could lead to a person’s death. I support the call to increase funding for the development of new antibiotics. However, the most important thing is to educate the public on the problems of using antimicrobial agents at the wrong time and not as they were intended to be used. In particular, I would urge for practices to be changed in animal husbandry, where antibiotics are currently used as a preventive rather than a curative measure. Disease prevention comes from improving the conditions in which animals are kept and not from feeding them drugs. Certain types of antimicrobial agents for which no possible replacement has yet been found should be completely banned from being used in animal husbandry."@en1
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