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By keeping animals healthy, farm biosecurity can effectively contribute to reducing the need for antimicrobial use, reducing the costs of production and increasing productivity.

Every day, people are dying from infections that cannot be treated anymore. And so are animals and plants. Our misuse and overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials has led to an increase in microbes that are resistant to the medicines [...]

What happens to animas health has an effect on human health, and the environment affects this situation. FAO's role in the fight against AMR is very important: 75% of antimicrobial is used in the agricultural sector.

FAO, PAHO, OIE and the European Union, together with government authorities in the agricultural sector, human health and animal health, are leading the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

For centuries, many diseases that have caused death were contained and treated thanks to the discovery of a drug that changed the history of medicine: penicillin. In this series of videos, we tell you about the importance of antibiotics and the [...]