Tag: antibiotic prescriptions

  • Nation & World

    Pediatric antibiotic exposure ‘alarming’

    A new study has found that between 2007 and 2017, children in eight low- and middle-income countries received, on average, 25 antibiotic prescriptions from birth through age 5 — up to five times higher than the already high levels observed in high-income settings.

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    Black African boy holding antibiotic pills.