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Slaughter on New Superbug Discovery

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says she's been sounding the alarm for years about the overuse of antibiotics. 

Now, a superbug has been discovered.

Representative Slaughter, the only microbiologist in Congress, says this is a result of feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock so they can grow faster and fatter, and deliver more money at market.

Slaughter cites a government-backed report from British economist Lord Jim O'Neill, which says by the year 2050, 10 million people could die each year from so-called "superbugs."

"A person will die in the world, every three seconds from infection. Now, if that is not good enough for us to try to stop this overuse of antibiotics," she said.

Slaughter last year authored a bill that would save eight classes of antibiotics from being routinely fed to healthy animals and would reserve them only for sick humans and sick animals.