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With overuse of antibiotics, superbugs continue to evolve

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Dec 14, 2022

As antibiotics are overused and misused, superbugs keep evolving.

Bottles of antibiotics line a shelf at a Florida pharmacy in August 2007. In the U.S., there are nearly 3 million antibiotic resistant infections each year.

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