Wary of chicken pumped with antibiotics making its way into Manipur’s markets, a section of poultry and dairy farm owners in the Indian state recently appealed to the state government to ban imports from other states, apprehending “health and economic havoc.”

Manipur is in northeast India, one of the regions charted by researchers as a “hotspot of multidrug-resistance in animals,” in a study published in September.

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