Mistreating the treatment: the struggle against antibiotic resistance
Posted by:
Paul Cosford, Posted on:
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Categories:
Antimicrobial resistance, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health
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Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …