FDA Ignores Warning On Cow Drug's Potential Harm To Humans

Washington Post   |  Rick Weiss   |   March 4, 2007 11:33 AM

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The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous for people.

The drug, called cefquinome, belongs to a class of highly potent antibiotics that are among medicine's last defenses against several serious human infections. No drug from that class has been approved in the United States for use in animals.

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