{"id":3488,"date":"2019-07-01T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"death-in-the-water-african-rivers-awash-with-fatal-antibiotics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/01\/death-in-the-water-african-rivers-awash-with-fatal-antibiotics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in the water: African rivers awash with fatal antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By The East African<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As people increasingly\nturn to antibiotics, the drugs are finding their way into water resources,\nresulting in pollution and related health complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study conducted\nby the University of York in the UK, researchers found that rivers in countries\nsuch as Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya have antibiotic levels that have surpassed the\nsafe limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The York study\nanalyzed levels of 14 commonly used antibiotics in rivers of 72 countries.\nSixty-five per cent of them were found to have varying levels of antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include\nmetronidazole, which is used to treat skin and mouth infections;\nclarithromycin, which is used as a treatment for respiratory tract infections\nlike bronchitis; and Ciprofloxacin, which treats infections of the skin and\nurinary tract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers\ncollected the data from 711 sites including well-known rivers such as Danube in\nAustria, the Thames in Britain, the Nairobi River in Kenya, the Mekong, a\ntrans-boundary river in Southeast Asia and the Tigris in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They established that\nhigh-risk sites are typically next to wastewater treatment plants, waste or\nsewage dumps as well as in areas experiencing political turmoil. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/African-rivers-awash-with-fatal-antibiotics\/3073694-5173478-r23efi\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African As people increasingly turn to antibiotics, the drugs are finding their way into water resources, resulting in pollution and related health complications. In a study conducted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}