Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007; A01
Original Article
The
government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a
pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups
and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision
will be dangerous for people.
The drug, called cefquinome,
belongs to a class of highly potent antibiotics that are among
medicine's last defenses against several serious human infections. No
drug from that class has been approved in the United States for use in
animals.
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