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Originally Posted by Raven
The Doctor said: America is at risk for the bird flu if we take anti biotics all the time because then the "bug" simply changes into a form that is resistant to anti-biotics altogether.
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Isn't Infuenza a virus? I agree that over-prescription of antibiotics will cause resistant strains of bacteria, but for a "doctor" to say that this puts us at risk for "bird flu" is very unprofessional and inaccurate. Antibiotics have no effect on any virus, only on bacterial infections. If a doctor doesn't know that, then he has no buisiness prescribing anything and should go back to med school(or even high school biology class for that matter).
Sorry for the rant. Eben, get well soon.