# Combating Antibiotic Resistance- Environment and Sanitation

Antibiotic resistance can be found in places like water and soil, but how it spreads in the environment and impacts human health is unknown. Poor sanitation infrastructure can lead to infections and greater use of antibiotics to treat them. To save lives and combat antibiotic resistance, we must improve antibiotic use in humans, animals, and crops; address the discharge of drug production waste containing antibiotics; improve sanitation and antibiotic disposal, including wastewater treatment; promote universal access to safe water; and study how antibiotics and resistance in the environment impact human and animal health.

Learn more about antibiotic resistance at https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/index.html

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2018
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Combating_Antibiotic_Resistance-_Environment_and_Sanitation.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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