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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading from people to chimpanzees

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World Economic Forum

Publication Date
2021-05-12

Nearly half of fecal samples from wild chimpanzees contain bacteria that is resistant to a major class of antibiotics people commonly use in the vicinity of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, according to new research

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/antibiotic-resistance-chimpanzees-monkeys-primates-drugs-medicine/