A landmark report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives the first snapshot of the toll and threat antibiotic-resistance poses to US health. The report ranks each threat and proposes four core actions to tackle the growing problem. Antibiotic-resistance occurs when an infection does not respond to the drug developed to treat it because the germs have since changed in ways that make them immune to it. Every year, more than two million Americans get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and more than 23,000 die as a result...

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