Antibiotics and Bacterial Infections

Antibiotics for Several Illnesses and Infections

Antibiotics are amongst the greatest frequently prescribed medications in modern medicine. Antibiotics are impractical against viral infections.About 2 million Americans each year produce hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), succeeding in 99,000 deaths – the vast mainstream of which are due to antibacterial-resistant pathogens. Two common HAIs alone (sepsis and pneumonia) destroyed nearly 50,000 Americans and cost the U.S. health care scheme more than $8 billion in 2006.