The New York Times carries this story "Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics, Alarming Health Officials". This happened during its decision to approve two drugs for orange and grapefruit trees, the E.P.A. largely ignored objections from the C.D.C. and the F.D.A., which fear that expanding their use in cash crops could fuel antibiotic resistance in humans. This Times article is written by Andrew Jacobs and centers its attention on ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. USA where a pernicious disease is eating away at Roy Petteway’s orange trees. The bacterial infection, transmitted by a tiny winged insect from China, has evaded all efforts to contain it, decimating Florida’s citrus industry and forcing scores of growers out of business. In a last-ditch attempt to slow the infection, Mr. Petteway revved up his industrial sprayer one recent afternoon and doused the trees with a novel pesticide: antibiotics used to treat syphilis, tuberculosis, urinary tract infections and a number of other illnesses in humans. Read the full article at this url address: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/health/antibiotics-oranges-florida.html