Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness is Everybody's Responsibility

Today on the CDCs Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, discusses the urgent need to preserve antibiotics. He highlights the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance and likens antibiotics to a natural resource. Laxminarayans post is a call to action for concerned consumers, parents, and patients, encouraging everyone to limit their use of antibiotics in order to preserve their effectiveness for future generations.

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