Antibiotics are now overused | SeacoastOnline.com.
Dr. David Itkin, an infectious disease specialist at the hospital, said the overprescribing of antibiotics makes it harder to treat some patients with bacterial infections and can render some patients incurable. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, killed 18,000 people in 2005 and the Centers for Disease Control suggests those numbers are rapidly rising. "These are the cases that when they happen, although they're not common, they're tragedies," said Itkin. "The problem is not getting better."
