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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: 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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