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Trouble with Antibiotics airs Oct. 14

By: Lynne Perri

Posted: Oct. 3, 2014 | Tags: antibiotics

PBS FRONTLINE, in a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop, will air a new one-hour program, "The Trouble with Antibiotics," Oct. 14 at 10 p.m. (check local listings).

Correspondent and reporter David E. Hoffman looks at the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and, in a follow-up to last fall's documentary, "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria," talks with the parents of a young man who died at the National Institutes of Health.

“Nearly four decades ago, scientists and government officials warned that widespread antibiotic use to raise food animals could put human health at risk. Today, we’re ...

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