Family doctors in Hong Kong have for the first time been issued with guidelines on the proper use of antibiotics, part of efforts to combat the spread of superbugs resistant to the drugs.
The Centre for Health Protection took the action after a study found private doctors were more likely than those in the public sector to prescribe antibiotics to treat coughs.
In another government survey, more than half of people questioned mistakenly believed that antibiotics could treat colds and flu.
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