Name: Report: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Pose Major Threat to Global Public Health
Uploaded: 2014-05-01 04:12:00Z
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Channel: VOA
Description: Doctors have long warned against prolonged use of antibiotics, saying that bacteria can build resistance to drugs, eventually rendering them ineffective. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that antibiotic-resistant bacteria now exist in many parts of the world. Zlatica Hoke reports that some diseases that once could easily be cured by antibiotics have now become deadly.

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Report: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Pose Major Threat to Global Public Health

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