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理工B-1 Fields across Europe are contaminated with dangerous levels of the antibiotics given to farm animals. The drugs, ___51___ are in manure sprayed onto fields as fertilizers, could be getting into our food and water, helping to ___52___ a new generation of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”. The warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levels of drugs in farm slurry. His findings are particularly ___53___ because Switzerland is one of the few countries to have banned antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed. ___54___ 20,000 tons of antibiotics are used in the European Union and the US each year. More than half are given to farm-animals to ___55___ disease and promote growth. But recent research has found a direct link between the increased use of these farmyard drugs and the___56___of antibiotic-resistant bugs that infect people. Most researchers assume that humans become infected ___57___ the resistant strain by eating contaminated meat. But far more of the drugs end up in manure than in meat ___58___, say Stephen Mueller, of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology in Dubendorf. And the manure contains ___59___ high levels of bugs that are resistant to antibiotics, he says. With millions of tons of animal manure spread onto field of crops such as wheat and barley each year, this pathway seems an equally likely ___60___ for spreading resistance, he said. The drugs contaminate the crops, which are then eaten. They could also be leaching into ___61___ water pumped from rocks beneath fertilized fields. Mueller is particularly concerned ___62___ a group of antibiotics called sulphonamides. They do not easily degrade or dissolve in water. His ___63___ found that Swiss farm manure contains a high percentage of sulphonamides; each hectare of field could be contaminated with up to 1 kilogram of the drugs. This contamination is high enough to trigger the development of resistance among bacteria. But vets are not treati