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Antibiotics: More Progress to Be Made

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on February 28, 2011

In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) launched a major initiative to reduce the overuse of antibiotics. While many people think that taking an antibiotic for viral infections is either beneficial or benign, the CDC knew that the overuse of antibiotics was leading to a significant increase in infections that were drug resistant.

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