Word: antibioticized
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At the same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a...
Here again, much of the blame can be laid to human activity. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, for example, are largely a human creation. Miracle drugs such as penicillin and tetracycline have been so overprescribed and then misused by patients that they have encouraged the bugs to develop immunities. The result is...
"The worst-case scenario is here," warns Fred Tenover, chief of the CDC's Nosocomial [hospital-transmitted] Pathogens Laboratory. "We are seeing infections that are no longer treatable because the bacterium is resistant to every significant antibiotic ever developed. And, for now, no new drugs are coming down the pike...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision...