‘Stop defaming our halloumi’ Cyprus tells Sweden
Cyprus defends its famous cheese against Swedish smear, alludes to ‘trade war’ By Evie Andreou and Lizzy Ioannidou Angry cheese producers, farmers and officials on...
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Swedes warned off eating Cyprus halloumi
Eating Cyprus halloumi could be worse than eating meat because of the high levels of antibiotics Cypriot farmers give their animals, a Swedish food expert...
Why are health experts so concerned about drug resistance?
Rising levels of drug resistance is a serious threat not only to public health but also for food safety, food security and development of low...
Fears mount over killer superbugs, but simple steps on farms can help
Imagine a world where a small cut on your finger or a routine hip replacement surgery could prove fatal. This is the future humanity is...
Antibiotic Apocalypse
I HAVE never advocated that people who routinely feed low doses of antibiotics to livestock should be executed without trial. That would be too harsh,...
Yum’s KFC pressed to tighten antibiotic rules
By Lisa Baertlein Consumer groups on Wednesday will deliver a petition from more than 350,000 people to the KFC fried chicken chain, calling on the...
Superbug review urges Big Pharma to ‘pay or play’ on antibiotics
Drug companies should agree to “pay or play” in the urgent race to develop new antibiotics to tackle a global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR),...
Antibiotic use in Cyprus’ animal farming is eight times recommend limit (Updated)
Antibiotic use in Cyprus’ animal farming eight times recommend limit Cypriot farmers use more than 400mg of antibiotics per kilo of livestock – eight times...
Alarming new “superbug” gene found in animals and people in China
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in...
Low score for Cyprus on Euro health index
By Jean Christou The high number of Caesarian births, the absence of legalised abortion and a lack of knowledge on the use of antibiotics were...
Slight improvement on overuse of antibiotics
By Constantinos Psillides Cyprus is among the EU countries with the highest percentage of microbial resistance because of the overuse of antibiotics, Health Minister Philippos...
Overuse of antibiotics gives way to superbugs
By Poly Pantelides THE health authorities are worried over the country’s multi-drug resistant infections, a consequence of its high and improper use of antibiotics, health...
Study shows high levels of infections and antibiotic use
By Poly Pantelides BLOODSTREAM infections were highest in Cyprus during a recent Europe wide survey aimed at tracking Europe’s defences against infectious disease. On the...