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September 10, 2005 News

The U.S. has for the first time ever banned a veterinary antibiotic. After a five-year battle between the FDA and the drug maker, Bayer, farmers will now not be able to legally use the antibiotic Baytril, known generically as enrofloxacin, on poultry. Use of the drug in chickens may have resulted in strains of bacteria called campylobacter, which is very dangerous to humans, that no antibiotic could defeat.

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