据外媒报道，滥用抗生素会导致超级细菌MRSA的蔓延。对此美国保健网站HealthDay整理了美国家庭医师学会（American Academy of Family Physicians）有关抗生素的报告。
抗生素是用来治疗细菌以及某些霉菌、寄生虫的感染，而不是用来治疗像感冒、流感这些由病毒所引起的疾病。由于抗生素的药性很强，所以虽然它现在已经相当普及，但仍需经医师处方才可取得。
部分原文报道如下：
Antibiotics are useful drugs, and there's no question that they have saved many lives. For example, 90 percent of children who developed bacterial meningitis used to die before the development of antibiotics. Strep throat was also sometimes a fatal disease. This is rarely the case today thanks to antibiotics.
However, antibiotics have led to some concerns in recent decades, and that's because of the development of strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In some cases, the development of these bacteria can be tied directly to the overuse of antibiotics, as well as antibiotics being prescribed incorrectly. These bacteria can be dangerous because the typical medication to treat them may no longer be effective. In many instances, though, an alternative antibiotic may be helpful in ending the bacterial infection. The situation with antibiotic resistance has been improving thanks to health care providers cutting back on unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions （such as for viral infections like the cold and flu）。
原文链接：<http://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/antibiotics-news-30/>
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