Antibiotic Resistance - The Biggest Threat to Humanity

Antibiotics are meant to treat bacterial infections, not viruses like a cold or the flu. Jeff Linda: These medications are so widely used that we might perceive them as being benign but they have real and risky side effects. He says in the U.S. alone more than 2.8 million antibiotic resistant infections occur each year. More than 35,000 people die as a result of these infections.