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Almost half of all infections caused by a bacteria responsible for pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections will be virtually untreatable by next year, according to a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...This is putting selective pressure on bacteria when it’s not needed,” said Alethea McCormick, the study’s principle author. “The use of antibiotics should be limited to infections that are truly bacterial...
McCormick said that there is a rising proportion of bacteria resistant to both penicillin and erythromycin—two of the most heavily prescribed antibiotics...
...researchers looked at data from the 1990s which gave the number of infections caused by strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae that were not treatable by certain antibiotics. They then employed a mathematical model of disease transmission to predict the prevalence of such drug-resistant strains in the future...
...Florida Health Department issued warnings for several beaches after routine tests detected contamination of fecal bacteria in the water...