Few discoveries in modern medicine have saved as many lives as antibiotics. From curing pneumonia and treating tuberculosis to preventing infections after surgeries, antibiotics have been one of the greatest weapons of science against diseases.

Today, these life-saving drugs have become a cause of worry. Globally, doctors are seeing more and more infections that do not respond to commonly used antibiotics. This growing problem is known as antibiotic resistance, and is one of the biggest challenges to global health in the 21st century. Unless we act wisely, we may soon return to a time when even simple infections could become fatal.

Antibiotics are drugs that kill or stop the growth of bacteria, responsible for various diseases like typhoid, tuberculosis and urinary tract infections. They

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