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Antimicrobial Overuse Creating Superbugs

When medicines become resistant, even curable diseases are at risk of becoming incurable

Nov 27, 2021
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By: Shoba Shukla and Bobby Ramakant

Irresponsible and inappropriate use of antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals, and antiparasitics is threatening a century of progress in medicine, with previously treatable and curable infections no longer responding to treatment, global health officials say.

Thomas Joseph, the World Health Organization head of Antimicro…

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