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Can you imagine a day when antibiotics don’t work anymore? It’s concerning to think that the antibiotics that we depend upon for everything from skin and ear infections to life-threatening bloodstream infections could no longer work. Unfortunately, the threat of untreatable infections is very real.

Recent media stories about 'flesh-eating' bacteria may have you worried. But CDC's cutting-edge tracking methods, like Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs), show no rise in annual cases.

Antibiotics are powerful tools for fighting illness and disease, but overuse of antibiotics has helped create bacteria that are outsmarting the drugs used to treat them.

Antibiotics can be life saving, but they aren't always the answer.