Byline: LINDA STAHL (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal
Do yourself and your community a favor this cold or flu season. Don't search for a doctor who will give you antibiotics.
That's the message from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a host of health groups in their continuing fight to curb the misuse of antibiotics.
The fact is, antibiotics can cure bacterial infections but are ineffective against viruses -- and viruses, not bacteria, cause the common cold, most coughs and the flu.
Yet some patients, who may have received antibiotics in the past for colds and other viral illnesses, show up at the doctor's office …
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