Physicians Ask EPA, 'Antibiotics To Cure Sick Apples, Or Sick Children?'

Monday, August 4, 2008 - 03:14 in Health & Medicine

A U.S. federal decision to permit the State of Michigan to spray the state's apple orchards with gentamicin risks undermining the value of this important antibiotic to treat blood infections in newborns and other serious human infections, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

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