Around 23,000 Americans die from antibiotic-resistant infections each year. Antibiotic resistance costs the United States billions of dollars annually in direct healthcare expenses and lost productivity. Antibiotics are an essential part of the health care we receive, yet 80% of those sold in the United States—the same medicines used to treat human infections—are used in industrial animal agriculture as a stopgap against crowded, unsanitary conditions and to promote growth.

This panel discussion co-hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine and Health Care Without Harm February 7, 2017 from 6-8 pm will explore how the overuse and misuse of antibiotics is breeding antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains and how leaders in agriculture and health care are responding. 

Learn more and sign up to attend!