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Antibiotic overuse and its effects

Itโ€™s not an unusual impulse that people have when they develop a bad cold or the flu to run off to the doctor and try to get them to write a prescription for an antibiotic. Yet often patients are told by their primary care professionals that antibiotics wonโ€™t help. Why is that? The Center for Disease Control (CDC) details the proper and improper use of antibiotics throughout their โ€œAntibiotic Useโ€ section on their site.