There's a test that allows doctors to check if antibiotics will work or not

10% of the 34m antibiotics prescribed in the UK every year are given to people who don't need them

It is estimated that antibiotics add an average of 20 years to all of our lives. However, their overuse, misuse and inappropriate use has encouraged microbes to evolve resistance, resulting in the emergence of untreatable “superbugs” that threaten the basis of modern medicine.

Drug-resistant infections are already responsible for more than half a million deaths worldwide each year, estimated to rise to over 10m by 2050. Antimicrobial resistance must be managed with the utmost urgency and careful stewardship of antibiotics can help conserve antibiotics for future generations.

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