Synopsis: A Lancet study reveals 83% of Indians carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria (highest globally) due to incomplete courses and unaware overuse. Patients stop medicines once symptoms fade, allowing surviving bacteria to share resistance genes. Experts warn: finishing the full course is critical to prevent bacterial resistance; most early fevers are viral and need no antibiotics.

You wake up on day four of antibiotics and feel remarkably better. The fever has broken, the pain has subsided, and energy is returning. The pill bottle still holds four more days of medication, but you think: why keep taking medicine when I’m already cured? You toss the bottle in a drawer and move on with your life.

What you don’t realise is that you’ve just enrolled bacteria in a survival training program

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