Originally Posted by corycaly

thanks for the share!
here in france, we recently had a tv campaign about "antibiotics aren't automatic": it means that antibiotics aren't efficient on everything and that it's ok when the doctor don't prescribe them.

Originally Posted by sunken

Antibiotics never did cure viral infections, and thus have no use for that purpose. They are, however, very useful for bacterial infections and are necessary to stop these from spreading. Doctors should be far more careful though in administering these instead of just prescribing them for everything. Then when something bad comes along, the body may be immune to it at that point, thus you get resistant strains.