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
