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Superb PBS Newshour segment on agricultural use of antibiotics + McKeena’s Big Chicken book

Dear All: 

I wrote a few weeks ago about the Stopping Superbugs series from PBS Newshour. PBS has since then added some superb new materials:

These build on their prior 3 stories (each about 10 minutes) + the PBS FRONTLINE story (about an hour):

All are highly recommended, with the pig farmer’s story in the newest video story being especially well done. I am always pleased to see these efforts to tell the story in non-technical terms to a broad audience … only by informed effort will we get the entire community moving in the right direction.

All best wishes, –jr

John H. Rex, MD | Chief Medical Officer, F2G Ltd. | Chief Strategy Officer, CARB-X | Expert-in-Residence, Wellcome Trust. Follow me on Twitter: @JohnRex_NewAbx. See past newsletters and subscribe for the future: http://amr.solutions/blog.html

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