Get Smart About Antibiotics Week 2013 - Digital Press Kit
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH
“Our medicine cabinet is nearly empty of antibiotics to treat some infections. If doctors prescribe antibiotics carefully and patients take them as prescribed we can preserve these lifesaving drugs and avoid entering a post-antibiotic era.”
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH - Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Arjun Srinivasan, MD
“The threat of untreatable infections is real. Although previously unthinkable, the day when antibiotics don’t work is upon us. We are already seeing germs that are stronger than any antibiotics we have to treat them.”
Arjun Srinivasan, MD - Associate Director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lauri Hicks, DO
“We need antibiotics to combat life-threatening bacterial infections, and overuse of these drugs promotes resistance and reduces their effectiveness.”
Lauri Hicks, DO - Medical Epidemiologist and Director of Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work, Respiratory Diseases Branch, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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