World Antibiotic Awareness Week: How over-the-counter antibiotics can threaten your health

On World Antibiotic Awareness Week, learn how excess use of antibiotics can cause resistance which can make even common infections incurable. With the growth of antibiotic resistance complicating treatments for several diseases in India, we might reach a stage where common infections become incurable. Antibiotic resistance is a global threat to health and is part of a bigger problem called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR refers to the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics and antivirals) from working against it.…

Read More