ANTIBIOTICS USED TO TREAT COM-mon childhood ailments are becoming less and less effective, according to a new study.
Many of the antibiotics often used to treat infections like pneumonia, sepsis (bloodstream infections) and meningitis, which children often contract, are now less than 50 percent effective, the study published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health—Southeast Asia says.
The regions most affected by this are Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Indonesia and the Philippines. Antibiotics in the United States are also getting less effective.
“It is already affecting us in the U.S.
