In the CDC’s weekly bulletin today, there’s a report: 58 percent of the antibiotic prescriptions given to kids and pre-teens during medical office visits are for conditions for which antibiotics are not necessary.
And that’s an improvement.
It’s a sign of how difficult it has become to change the trend of over-use of antibiotics in human medicine, which — along with overuse in agriculture — is one of the main drivers of the emergence of antibiotic resistance worldwide.
