From the Thames to the Tigris, rivers all around the world are contaminated with antibiotic waste – study
Fishermen Sun Lianxi, 32, and Sun Genxi, 44, travel down the Yellow River to cast their net on the northern outskirts of Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, February 21, 2019.
In dozens of locations, concentrations of the drugs — used to fight off bacterial infection in people and livestock — exceeded safety levels set by the AMR Industry Alliance, a grouping of more than 100 biotech and pharmaceutical companies. "The results are quite eye-opening and worrying, demonstrating the widespread contamination of river systems around the world with antibiotic compounds," Alistair Boxall, a scientist at the York Environmental Sustainability Institute, said in a statement.
Discovered in the 1920s, antibiotics have saved tens of millions of lives from pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis and a host of deadly bacteria.Thames to Tigris "Until now, the majority of environmental monitoring work for antibiotics has been done in Europe, North America, and China," said co-author John Wilkinson, also from the University of York, where the samples were examined.
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