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Highest Level Of Antibiotics Found In Ghana’s Rivers

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Rivers around the world are contaminated with dangerous levels of antibiotics, according to a major new study.

 

The study, led by researches from the University of York in the UK, found that concentrations of antibiotics in some waterways exceed safe levels by 300 times.

 

The researchers found that Ghana, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pastikan were home to the most contaminated rivers.

 

The researchers, who looked at 14 commonly used antibiotics in rivers flowing through 72 countries, found that the safe limits were most frequently exceeded in Asia and Africa.

 

However, sites in Europe, North America and South America also had high levels of contamination showing that antibiotic contamination was a “global problem”.

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