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Antibiotic overuse and its effects

It’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 won’t help. Why is that? The Center for Disease Control (CDC) details the proper and improper use of antibiotics throughout their “Antibiotic Use” section on their site.