Perfect Paragraph Week 2: Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and human development that we are facing today. Antibiotic resistance can effect anybody, of any age, anywhere in the world. This process occurs naturally, but the misuse of antibiotic drugs by humans had accelerated the process and is causing common infections to become more difficult to treat. Infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and salmonella are beconing harder to treat with conventional antibiotics. Other side effects of antibiotic resistance include longer hospital stays, higher medical bills, and increased mortality. In order to combat this growing problem, the world needs to change the way it prescribes and uses antibiotics. Even if new antibiotics are developed, they will quickly become ineffective if the same practices used today are still in place. This behavior change does not only apply to doctors, but applies to everyone around the world. Most people are not prescribing antibiotics on a regular basis, but their behaviors can still contribute to antibiotic resistance. By reducing he spread of infections through vaccinations, hand washing, practicing safe sex, and good food hygiene, we can all do our part to limit antibiotic resistance. Researchers around the world are constantly looking for new antibiotics, but the rate we are finding them is much lower than the rate at which the current ones are becoming resistant. This is a global issue that has the potential to effect everybody on the planet, and it seems as if not enough people are talking about it or taking steps to limit it. By raising awareness about this issue, we can work together to ensure that antibiotic resistance does not get out of control.