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  • Opinion: The antibiotics that could kill you

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    • Martin Blaser: Overprescription of antibiotics put Americans at risk for disease
    • He says we wipe out good, protective germs, bringing danger of "antibiotic winter"
    • With lower resistance, plague inevitable in interconnected world, he says
    • Blaser: Targeted antibiotics, less interference in natural process are key to cutting vulnerability

    CNN) -- In 2010, Americans were prescribed 258 million courses of antibiotics, a rate of 833 per thousand people. Such massive usage, billions of doses, has been going on year after year.


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    Martin Blaser says the overuse of antibiotics threatens to leave us vulnerable to an unstoppable plague, unless we change our approach
    Please do not ask me for medical advice, I am not a medical doctor.

    Avatar is a painting by Alan Pollack, titled, "Plague". I'm sure it was an accident that the plague girl happened to look almost like my twin.
    Thank you,
    Shannon Bennett
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