Almost half of Hongkongers surveyed said they had taken antibiotics in the past year, up from 35 per cent in 2011, prompting one of the city’s top microbiologists on Thursday to describe the results as “horrifying”.
A health department survey, conducted this year, found that 49 per cent of the 1,200 people said they had taken antibiotics in the past 12 months. Among them, 2 per cent did not obtain the medicine used to treat bacterial infections from a doctor.
Overall use is up...
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