It’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week. Why should you care about antibiotic resistance?

 

Reasons for the world antibiotic resistance crisis include:

• Patients not finishing their full course of antibiotics

 

• Health workers over-prescribing antibiotics

 

• The overuse of antibiotics in livestock and fish farming

 

• Poor infection control in hospitals and clinics

 

• Lack of hygiene and poor sanitation

 

• Lack of new antibiotics being developed