Antibiotic demand has surged 65% since 2000: Now 24.5 billion prescriptions are written a DAY- driving us closer to resistance that will cause a global public health crisis
Antibiotic prescriptions have shot up by 65 percent overall and by 39 percent per person in 15 years, new research reveals. In the period from 2000 to 2015, 24.5 billion prescriptions for the infection-fighting