Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Drug resistance likely to kill 400,000 Canadians by 2050, report predicts


CBC News
Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic product over the next 30 years, warns a landmark report.  Story here.
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PinP: As is too often the case, a big piece of the information puzzle is left out of stories such as this. Antibiotics have been overused almost everywhere in the world for a long time, often to raise animals for food. Among other things, it makes them grow faster and fattens them up to fetch a better price at market time. Yet governments forge ahead, like Manitoba's is doing, to expand the very style of livestock production that spawns such problems. 

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Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality

CBC News Air pollution 'is like the zombie that we thought we had killed,' says expert .   Story here.