Many people die each day from diseases that used to be curable by antibiotics. Infections of all kinds have grown resistant to the drug, because of its overuse. Antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed for animals raised for meat production even for animals who are not ill, to prevent infections in over crowded conditions and promote weight gain. People who eat the animals ingest the antibiotic at the same time. Even people who do not eat meat are not immune to this since the animals waste is used as fertiliser for vegetables. Also, courses of antibiotics prescribed to humans are often not finished. This means that the bug it is fighting is not entirely wiped out and develops ways to resist the drug. Antibiotics are also prescribed wrongly, so that their use is more widespread than it should be. Finally, few new antibiotics are being developed. The answer is use to use these drugs more sparingly, and to develop more. There are also alternative treatments which should be taken seriously, such as bacteriophages which have been developed in France and are used as an antibiotic alternative in places like the country Georgia.

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