Antibiotic Resistance
While reading the article https://student.societyforscience.org/article/superbugssilenthealthemergency answer the following questions in your own words, using complete sentences.
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What is antibiotic resistance? Why are people worried about it?
ntibiotic resistance is the effect of antibiotics on germs that infect our body. Most of the antibiotics have lost their
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resistance to fight germs. People are worried about it because if antibiotics won’t work no longer than we could even die from a paper cut.
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How can antibioticresistant germs travel from people out into the environment? Antibioticresistant germs can travel from people out into the environment by a flush of toilet.
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Why is MRSA particularly nasty in hospitals and prisons?
1.
What is antibiotic resistance? Why are people worried about it?
ntibiotic resistance is the effect of antibiotics on germs that infect our body. Most of the antibiotics have lost their
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resistance to fight germs. People are worried about it because if antibiotics won’t work no longer than we could even die from a paper cut.
2.
How can antibioticresistant germs travel from people out into the environment? Antibioticresistant germs can travel from people out into the environment by a flush of toilet.
3.
Why is MRSA particularly nasty in hospitals and prisons?