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Has Mexico’s drug-cartel-related violence put a damper on overuse of antibiotics?

The subject of antibiotics. Boring #$@% perhaps, unless you or your child, God forbid, is the one lying in the hospital with a heavy-duty bacterial infection, and none of the antibiotics will work because too many Americans have overused them. (Source: Thermo Fisher Institute, et al.)And now the little buggers (bacteria) have found a way to morph into something new, AKA, a Superbug, which the existing antibiotics can’t combat, allowing that flesh-eating bacteria to do its nasty bit of work.Here on the Mexican border, of course, it’s even worse. The overuse of antibiotics, I mean. Why? Because if you live ...

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