Comment On: Causal Regulations Vs. Political Will: Why Human Zoonotic Infections Increase Despite Precautionary Bans On Animal Antibiotics

摘要

Recently, Louis A. Cox and Paolo F. Ricci (2008) published a paper where they aim to show that bans on animal antibiotics, intended to be precautionary, inadvertently may harm human health.rnWhile we do agree that it is important to consider both potential benefits and risks associated with a political intervention, the published paper unfortunately has so many flaws that it sadly does not add to our scientific knowledge and is not useful as an additional guidance for risk management in the future. The paper is pasted with a large number of superlatives and seems to be a mix of selected half-truths and assumptions spiced with some unnecessary mathematical symbols that just function to cover the weaknesses of the paper.rnWe will not claim expertise in all areas that the paper covers, but would like to point out some serious flaws within some selected areas, mainly focusing on the part of the paper that the authors refer to as the surprising trends.