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Posted Thu Sep 10 2009: from Environmental Health News:
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Unprecedented levels of antibiotics pollute India's water. http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1252626078
Levels of antibiotics measured in streams, lakes and well water near pharmaceutical factories in India are 100,000 to 1,000,000 times higher than levels measured in waters that receive sewage effluent in the US or China. Much of the world's supply of generic antibiotics is produced in the study area.... These levels of contamination are alarming for two reasons. First, they may adversely affect human health following exposure to contaminated water. The health effects of ongoing exposure to high concentrations of mixtures of pharmaceutical mixtures are largely unknown. This is especially true for a developing fetus, baby or child.
Second, they generate conditions that may foster development of antibiotic resistant strains of pathogens.
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Very Scary Tags: capitalist greed, climate impacts, pharmwater, antibiotic resistance
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