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A hidden cause of antibiotic overprescription

One reason why there’s an Antibiotic Awareness Week every November is to alert people to the unfortunate outcome of antibiotic overuse: the evolution of strains of bacteria that are resistant to the drugs. I.e., when millions of people each year coerce their physicians to prescribe antibiotics for viral and fungal infections, bacteria that are present […]

Antibiotic Awareness Week poster

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Ten interesting facts about antibiotics, for Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov 18 -24, 2013).  Below is an image that can be used for presentations. PDF version for printing: facts-about-antibiotics.pdf. I’ve tried to craft the above poster with information that is mildly interesting, with the hope that people (people like you?) might pass the link along. There […]