As Deadly Superbugs Rise, Big Pharma Presses Farm Antibiotics

  • Strategy seen thrwarting policy to control resistant superbugs
  • Keeping livestock healthy linked to rise of human infection
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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The U.S. wants to fight superbugs by targeting one of the world’s biggest markets for antibiotics: farms.

Big pharma has other ideas.