A global study has uncovered a disturbing level of antibiotic contamination in rivers, one of the prevalent causes of antibiotic resistance.
A worldwide study into the levels of antibiotics in the world’s rivers has found that 65% of the 711 sites tested contained at least one of the 14 antibiotics tested for, with concentrations exceeding safe levels by over 300-times in some of the test sites, proving river contamination could be one of the major causes of antibiotic resistance.
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