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1. Add to this the impact of doctors regularly prescribing antibiotics for virus related issues,

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 07:42 AM

Apr 2015

such as the flu (eg which would only be affected by anti-virals), and you have the path toward rendering most antibiotics ineffective.

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