Moldova participates in antibiotic resistance awareness week

Chisinau, 22 November /MOLDPRES/- "Distribute information, stop resistance" is the motto of the World Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Week, held this year on November 18-24, which is also attended by the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) in the Republic of Moldova.

The aim of the event is to raise public awareness of increasing antibiotic resistance worldwide and nationally.

"This serious problem, reported for a long time in the treatment of humans, has become specific to the treatment of animals, given that most of the same antimicrobial active substances (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics) are used in veterinary medicine. All over the world, bacteria, viruses and parasites are changing and starting to not respond to the drugs used to treat the infections they cause. This antimicrobial resistance occurs naturally, usually through genetic modification. However, excessive use and abuse of antimicrobials have accelerated the development of antimicrobial resistance, as well as the prevention and inadequate control of infections. This makes infections more difficult to treat, which increases the risk of spreading the disease and death, "explains ANSA.

In addition to the impact on public health, antibiotic resistance also has economic repercussions through the costs generated by long treatments, increased mortality, decreased animal productivity, respectively - more expensive and less competitive finished products on the market.

In the context of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, the National Agency for Food Safety comes with several messages to consumers, asking "to procure food only from authorized sanitary-veterinary places, which have a satisfactory level of state surveillance of marketed products." 

Animal owners are responsible for providing safe and healthy products to consumers, taking care of animal health and welfare.

"A healthy animal has adequate immunity and does not require antimicrobial treatments in the breeding process, and the costs will be considerably reduced," ANSA said.

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