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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/antibiotic-resistance-what-does-it-mean-to-you-and-your-family/">Antibiotic Resistance – What Does it Mean to You and Your Family?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 4, 2008 at 07:00 PM by Kathleen Blanchard</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Antibiotic resistance has become a major health care concern in recent years.&nbsp; Bacteria that have been around for years, highly treatable in the past, are finding ways to resist eradication as they mutate.&nbsp; Challenges to find new cures for diseases such as MRSA, childhood ear infections, malaria, gonorrhea and tuberculosis are taking precedence.&nbsp; The concern is huge, making the dilemma a priority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the problem worsens, the only solution has been to provide experimental and potentially toxic drugs for treatment.&nbsp; To make matters worse, antibiotics given to animals are making it more difficult to treat human infections. It is a common misconception that people become “immune” to antibiotics.&nbsp; The tricky bacteria, or microbes, mutate and cause the problem.&nbsp; Since the advent of penicillin, we have been able to treat many diseases, but over…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/antibiotic-resistance-what-does-it-mean-to-you-and-your-family/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/antibiotic-resistance-what-does-it-mean-to-you-and-your-family/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/antibiotic-resistance-what-does-it-mean-to-you-and-your-family/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/antibiotic-resistance-what-does-it-mean-to-you-and-your-family/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>