PBS NewsHour

How industrial farming techniques can breed superbugs

Clip: 08/09/2017 | 9m 38s  | Video has closed captioning.

As high-density, industrial-scale livestock farms have become fertile breeding grounds for disease, they’ve also become a major source of drug-resistant superbugs. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien and economics correspondent Paul Solman team up to report on how scientists are studying how superbugs can get into the food supply.

Aired: 08/09/17

Rating: NR

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