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To Avoid Intestinal Distress While Traveling Overseas, Skip The Ceviche
If you know what a bladder infection feels like, should you have to go to the doctor every time? iStockphoto hide caption
Patients receive treatment at the Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar, India. The country has one of the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world, in part because antibiotics for the disease are poorly regulated by the government. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption
Tyson Foods says it has already reduced its use of human-use antibiotics by 80 percent over the past four years. Here, Tyson frozen chicken on display at Piazza's market in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2010. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
Shigella is a huge problem around the world. The bacteria infect about 100 million people each year and kill about 600,000. CDC/Science Source hide caption
This is what the inflammation of sinus infection looks like in a false-color X-ray. It hurts even more in real life. CNRI/Science Source hide caption
An order of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. McDonald's says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine. Mark Duncan/AP hide caption
An employee of the drug company Apotex, examines some Ciprofloxacin at the plant in Canada. Cipro is commonly given to travelers for diarrhea. More than 20 million Cipro doses are prescribed each year in the U.S. Getty Images hide caption
You don't want to run into methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. A potential new antibiotic could help fight this bug. CDC hide caption
Scientists Hit Antibiotic Pay Dirt Growing Finicky Bacteria In Lab
Within a day after chicks hatch, they are sorted by sex and shipped to farms. Some will be treated with antibiotics; others will not. Dan Charles /NPR hide caption
Drat those viruses. They're the culprit in the majority of children's colds and sore throats. iStockphoto hide caption
David Livermore, the director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory in London, studies a new class of superbugs, called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Nokubheka, 12, had to move away from her family and into a hospital for treatment against drug-resistant tuberculosis. Screenshot from PBS/YouTube hide caption
Beef cattle in a barn on the Larson Farms feedlot in Maple Park, Ill. Daniel Acker/Landov hide caption