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Continued antibiotic overuse could cause superbug epidemic that threatens humanity’s existence

For seven decades now, we've been using antibiotics to successfully fight bacterial infections, but standard antibiotic treatments are now steadily dwindling in effectiveness against new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or "superbugs." The BBC says: "Superbugs are now a major global health threat with multi-drug resistant bacteria causing around 400,000 infections and 25,000 deaths in Europe … Continue reading Continued antibiotic overuse could cause superbug epidemic that threatens humanity’s existence