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The Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

medicine and public health

Antibiotics have saved millions of lives since the 1940s, but their value is now under ______(1)______ threat. Every time these drugs are used, bacteria that happen to ______(2)______ the treatment survive and multiply, passing on their resistance. The problem is made worse when antibiotics are ______(3)______ for viral infections such as colds, against which they have no effect at all. Hospitals are particularly ______(4)______ because they bring together seriously ill patients and heavy antibiotic use. Experts argue that new drugs alone will not solve the problem; doctors and patients must also use existing ones more ______(5)______.

• prescribe
• immune
• carefully
• vulnerability
• growing
• withstand
• prescribed
• vulnerable