antibiotics

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The best way to stop the disease spreading is to give antibiotics to people who may have come into contact with it.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The CDC advises that consulting a doctor before taking anti-diarrhea medicine or antibiotics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

"Some of the really important treatments are antibiotics, fluids given on the ward. And there's about 1,500 people who've had changes of care like that, all of which are potentially affecting outcomes, saving lives."

From BBC • May 1, 2026

This suggests it could be developed into an alternative antimicrobial that works differently from existing antibiotics.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

I thought of Mother, and of the many times she’d told me that antibiotics poison the body, that they cause infertility and birth defects.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover