Fish Farming and Antibiotic Resistance

Send a text In this episode, Thomas Van Boeckel tells us about how aquaculture might be helping drive the rise of drug-resistant superbugs around the world. Three-quarters of antibiotics sold globally go to farmed animals. Some of these animals are fish and shrimp. Thomas Van Boeckel studies the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other drug-resistant microbes at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-- known as ETH Zurich. He’s also...