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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and leading experts will discuss the economic and public health implications of antibiotic resistance and the connection to food animal production. The economic burden of resistant infections on the American healthcare system is measurable -- in 2008, the Institute of Medicine reported that... antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, cost the U.S. $4-5 billion a year. The CDC estimates that two million Americans contract resistant infections and out of those, 90,000 die.
If you are unable to attend the briefing in person, we will be soliciting questions on Twitter via the hashtag #clf09.
In addition to Rep. Slaughter, the panel will include:
-- Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH, former Vice Chair, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production; Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS (ret.); Former Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
-- Robert Lawrence, MD, Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
-- Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, Senior Fellow, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
-- Robert Martin, Senior officer, Pew Environmental Group; former Executive Director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Washington, DC
-- Lance Price, PhD, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ
RSVP to Kate Morrison at cmorrison@spectrumscience.com. If you are not able to attend, we hope you’ll join us on Twitter via #clf09.
Time:9:30AM Wednesday, December 2nd
Location:Rayburn House Office Building Room 2168
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