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We all probably take antibiotics at some point, and gave him little thought. If the disease has lasted a long time, this miracle drugs often seem harmless magic bullet, able to cure everything. Some even called antibiotics greatest medical advance ever. But now, health authorities warn that our long love affair with these drugs makes them useless. When a person does not work, we are given another. However, all doctors are the options. "Crisis" is too strong a word to describe what happened with antibiotics. In our use of drugs increased annually in the United States, bacterial resistance has increased right alongside it, there is no known antibiotic that bacteria do not become resistant. To give just one example, Staphylococcus aureus, or staph infections become harder to treat. Staphylococcal bacteria can spread like mold in a damp cellar Hospital, when equipment, clothing, and even his hands are not washed and sterilized properly. (Hospitals do not want to admit it, but it happens in every hospital in the United States -. Even in the best) was a time a long time that staphylococci can be eliminated almost immediately antibiotics. These days, there is no guarantee that any antibiotic can save you. Each year over 90,000 Americans die from such infections have become resistant to antibiotics. This stunning figure is higher than the number of deaths from AIDS, car accidents and prostate cancer combined. Seven decades since the discovery of antibiotics, it becomes clear that science still can not keep strattera up with the bacteria. Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of molecular biology in the School of Medicine Taft and one of the world's leading medical authority on antibiotics, said the cause of the crisis is not in dispute: we simply use too many antibiotics. And the place where it occurs most often in the central office services. Some reasons are obvious: antibiotics, like a quick hand, doctors are often rushed, and it's just write a prescription, doctors may think it is better to be But Dr. Rita Mangione-Smith, "keep." investigator at the hospital in Seattle Children's Research Institute, said that the real reason is more subtle than that. "When the doctor says that his father wants to antibiotics, they are much more likely to prescribe inappropriately," she said. And it has much in common with American consumer culture, and according to the patient as "customers." "There's a lot of concern among physicians that their patients have a high level of satisfaction," said Mangione-Smith. Otherwise, "they leave his practice and go somewhere else."

And people are not the only ones taking too many antibiotics. Approximately seventy percent of all antibiotics purchased in the United States for farm animals that feed on these drugs per ton in order to help them grow faster. But bacteria in animals may develop resistance, as in humans, and this resistance can spread in society. But while the threat of resistance continues to grow in the U.S., HDNet in "Dan Rather said" the program find another time in Norway. This country has long begun a national education and regulation drive to reduce the use of antibiotics for humans and animals. Norwegian doctors can boast that patients are only one third of antibiotics per person as Americans. In real terms the world that it makes a huge difference: Norway has the lowest level of antibiotic-resistant infections in developed countries. This shows that Norwegian experts say can - and should - be done. Bacteria winning point in the war against antibiotics can be reversed, but only if the world acts, and acts quickly. Dan Rather Reports aired on Tuesdays at 8 on HDNet RM and 11 RM ET.