Don't Overuse Antibiotics
by savitha[ Edit ] 2009-12-29 14:20:13
- Researchers believe that overuse of overuse of antibiotics and incomplete followup of prescription is reducing the power of the drugs.
- "Antibiotic resistance is increasing and it's increasing at even faster rate than we were expecting," says Professor Herman Goossens, Coordinator at the European Surveillance on Antibiotic Consumption.
- Curable diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria are rapidly mutating into aggressive strains.
- Overuse leads to superbugs