Infectious Diseases

Antibiotics are amazing. Right? There was a time when thousands of people lost their lives due to some severe bacterial diseases. However, thanks to the British scientist Alexander Fleming, now many life-threatening diseases can be cured using Antibiotics when given at the right time. With the success of penicillin, the race to develop new antibiotics began. Today, there exist antibiotics in an enormous number in the market to choose from, and they are prescribed in even high numbers. According to the CDC, in the year 2014, physicians dispensed 266.1 Million antibiotic courses to the outpatients in the U.S. This parallels to more than 5 antibiotic prescriptions fo...