antibiotics

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One major consequence is that many harmful microbes are becoming resistant to antibiotics and disinfectants, creating serious challenges for medicine and public health.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

The CDC advises that consulting a doctor before taking anti-diarrhea medicine or antibiotics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Close contacts of the cases have already been offered antibiotics as a precaution.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

My mother’s relief was instant, but only years later would I learn that the antibiotics that saved my life had also gutted something else: a microbial ecosystem I’d been building since birth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The only reason she and her brother are in this car is because Kelton probably wouldn’t come without them—and Kelton’s the man with the antibiotics.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman