Is antibiotic actually preventing?

 


Antibiotic resistance is accelerated by poor infection prevention and control, as well as the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. Bacteria, not humans or animals, become antibiotic-resistant. The infections they cause are harder to treat than those caused by non-resistant bacteria and these bacteria may infect humans and animals.

In all parts of the world antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels. Threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases, new resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally. A growing list of infections are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics become less effective such as Ebola Virus, HIV, AIDs, Influenza, and Fungal. 

The emergence and spread of resistance is made worse, where antibiotics can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, similarly, antibiotics are often over-prescribed in countries without standard treatment guidelines, by health workers and veterinarians and over-used by the public.

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