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The World Health Organization urged farmers on Tuesday to stop using antibiotics to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals because the practice fuels dangerous drug-resistant superbug infections in people. Describing a lack of effective antibiotics for humans as "a security threat" on a par with "a sudden and deadly disease outbreak", WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "strong and sustained action across all sectors" was vital to turn back the tide of resistance and "keep the world safe".
The WHO "strongly recommends an overall reduction in the use of all classes of medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals, including complete restriction of these antibiotics for growth promotion and disease prevention without diagnosis," the United Nations agency said in a statement. Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of so-called superbugs, multidrug-resistant infections that can evade the medicines designed to kill them. According to the WHO's statement, in some countries around 80 percent of total consumption of medically important antibiotics is in the animal sector.

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