Results: Antibiotic overuse in nation

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marilynh

04/12/2013

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Health & Fitness
1.
1.
A Center for Disease Control study has found U.S. doctors are over-prescribing antibiotics, which is causing antibiotics to lose their punch in fighting infections. Are you worried about getting an infection that antibiotics don't cure?
Yes
47%
508 votes
No
27%
294 votes
Undecided
15%
165 votes
Not Applicable/ I never take antibiotics
11%
123 votes
2.
2.
Have you ever asked your child's doctor to prescribe antibiotics to your child so that they could get better quicker so you wouldn't have to miss as much work?
Yes
12%
130 votes
No
48%
528 votes
Not Applicable
40%
432 votes

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