Public health experts have warned that antibiotic resistance could claim 10 million people each year by 2050. In early December 2016, researchers said they had discovered that livestock had become resistant to a class of antibiotics used only in humans. Now scientists have found the genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics in polluted air in Beijing, China. [1]
The announcement comes in the wake of a three-year moratorium on new coal mines.
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Depending on where in the United States you live, you may have experienced your fair share of smog. You’ve learned to keep your car windows rolled up on certain days. You know the unmistakable smell of thick, black pollution. In China, smog is such a toxic problem that the country expects to have more than 800,000 cases of lung cancer a year by 2020.
