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Antibiotic Resistance Spreads to Marine Life

Antibiotic resistance has become a major threat to public health worldwide, and the primary cause for this man-made epidemic is the widespread misuse of antibiotics — drugs used to combat bacterial infections in humans and animals. Over the decades, antibiotics have been widely overprescribed for infections that don't respond well, or at all, to these drugs. Viral infections, for example, can’t be treated with antibiotics since they only kill bacteria, yet many of you have...