Bacteria that are resistant to every available antibiotic in the U.S. already exist.
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If no action is taken to address antibiotic resistance, infections from multidrug-resistant bacteria could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.
And don’t infect everyone else in the office either.
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The overuse of antibiotics puts vulnerable patients and society at risk.
To finish, or not to finish, your course of antibiotics? There’s little doubt that you shouldn’t stop midstream.
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New reports that stopping antibiotics when you feel better is better for you could do more harm than good. But it has reopened the debate on how long antibiotics should be used.