Recent studies reveal that China’s massive use of antibiotics has caused serious water and food contamination throughout the country and created a public health crisis. It’s also being exported to the United States, hidden in seafood and chicken.
In June 2006, an infant receiving antibiotic treatment for fungal infection and pneumonia in a hospital in Guangzhou City was found to be infected with a kind of super bacteria resistant to seven types of antibiotics. First-generation cephalosporin turned to be ineffective, second-generation cephalosporin was also ineffective, third and fourth generations, again, failed to do anything.
