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Great that attention is remaining focused on #AMR a big problem. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/un-meeting-calls-more-action-less-talk-antimicrobial-resistance">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers... . But the relentless claims that this is primarily or largely a problem of agriculture are not evidence-based.
Some years ago @BillHanage and I and @G_RegevY and our students pointed out the absence of strong evidence (while acknowledging challenges of generating it) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.12185">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
Recent excellent genomic work from Prof Sharon Peacock& #39;s group, @MarcBonten& #39;s group among others has failed to find evidence of strong links between resistance in animals and resistance in clinical isolates. @BillHanage wrote about this https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/2/e00550-19">https://mbio.asm.org/content/1...
It surely happens that agriculture influences human health https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1473-3099(01)00145-1">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/... and it is also true that it could be happening and hard to detect. But to emphasize One Health so much when it is very clear that use and overuse in human medicine are major drivers seems a mistake
