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In a poor Kenyan community, cheap antibiotics fuel deadly drug-resistant infections

In a poor Kenyan community, cheap antibiotics fuel deadly drug-resistant infections

New York Times | The overuse of antibiotics is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world, antibiotics are available without prescriptions. The miracle drugs credited with saving tens of millions of lives, have never been more accessible to the world’s poor, thanks in large part to the mass production of generics in China and India. And that is now contributing to the spread of drug-resistance that represents one of the world’s biggest public health threats.

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