Here’s what you need to know about the rise of superbugs and why some experts are calling it the world’s deadliest health crisis. What’s causes antibiotic resistance? The CDC estimates doctors prescribe 47 million courses of antibiotics yearly for infections that don’t need them in the U.S. “Stop referring to a coming post-antibiotic era — it’s already here,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a letter accompanying the organization’s report. “Whatever station in life you are, you get infections, and you need antibiotics.

Source: National Post November 26, 2019 16:41 UTC