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February 22, 2011

Pollution with antibiotics leads to resistant bacteria, scientists find

Pollution with antibiotics leads to resistant bacteria, scientists find
Many of the substances in our most common medicines are manufactured in India. Some of these factories release huge quantities of drugs to the environment. Swedish scientists now show that bacteria in polluted rivers become resistant to a range of antibiotics. International experts fear that this may contribute to the development of untreatable infectious diseases worldwide.

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