Physicians ask EPA, ‘Antibiotics to cure sick apples, or sick children?’ - (Infectious Diseases Society of America)
July 31, 2008 – 5:40 pmArlington, VA — A federal decision to permit the State of Michigan to spray the state’s apple orchards with gentamicin risks undermining the value of this important antibiotic to treat blood infections in newborns and other serious human infections, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday granted the state of Michigan “emergency” permission to use gentamicin to fight a tree disease called fire blight.
“At a time when bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to many of our best antibiotics, it is an extremely bad idea to risk undermining gentamicin’s effectiveness for treating human disease by using it to treat a disease in apples,” said IDSA President Donald Poretz, MD.
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