It’s our own complacency that brought on the threat of antimicrobial resistance, says Dr Trisha Dowling, a professor of veterinary clinical pharmacology at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
“We got complacent just pretty much thinking there was a pill for every ill. So there’s been a whole lot of use of antibiotics just in case someone or some animal might get an infection,” Dowling explained in a recent interview. “We’ve used antibiotics to cover up shoddy management practices and even health practices for humans.”