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Use of antibiotics in poultry and it's harmful effects:

Health management on poultry farms is of chief importance because of the overall economic effect it has on productivity.

Even farms stocked with the best breeds that are properly housed and fed on high quality feeds will not grow and produce efficiency under poor health management. For poultry health management to be effective, three principles have to be observed: Prevention, early recognition and early treatment of diseases.

Most diseases on poultry farms are caused by infectious pathogens that quickly spread across the flock especially in commercial farms, with high-stocking density.

These pathogens include bacteria, viruses, protozoa and parasites, some which are easily controlled through vaccination while others require proper bio-security measures.

Bacterial diseases account for a higher proportion of health problems in poultry farms and as such, one must invest a lot of resources on antibiotics to control them.

Antibiotics belong to a category of drugs called “antimicrobials,” and include penicillin (amoxillin), tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones (Cipro drugs) and other formulations that can kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria without causing significant harm to patients.

In poultry, the biggest controversy centres on administering antibiotics used to treat human illness to flocks.

The effect of using human drugs to manage diseases in poultry flocks on human health, whether long-term or short-term, remains unknown.

The fact, however, is that most approved animal pharmaceuticals are often made in the same manufacturing plants as human pharmaceuticals and will contain the same ingredients as human drugs.

These veterinary drugs have the same colour, shape, and bare the same markings as human drugs. Therefore, given the similarities between the two categories of drugs, the use of human drugs to treat livestock in general poses no threat to livestock neither to human health and they are just as effe