Antibiotic Resistance
Channel: HouseResourceOrg
Date: 2011-06-29

Antibiotic Resistance - 293222-1-DVD - House Energy and Commerce - 2010-04-28 - House Energy and Commerce Committee. Subcommittee on Health. Anthony Fauci and Thomas Frieden testified about the use of antibiotics and their growing ineffectiveness due to resistant disease strains. They highlighted a number of reasons why bacterial diseases have become resistant to antibiotics, most notably doctors prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily, and using antibiotics on farm animals. They warned that the nation was entering a post antibiotic world if measures including surveillance and infection control were not taken. Filmed by C-SPAN. Non-commercial use only. For more information, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293222-1