A recent study by researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital found that just 27% of respiratory tract
infections are actually caused by bacteria. That means that more than 2/3 of all infections are viral, and
antibiotics won’t help. The study also found that doctors prescribed antibiotics for children with those
infections 57% of the time. This results in about 11 million potentially needless prescriptions of antibiotics being written every year for upper respiratory tract infections alone – and that’s just the beginning.
Antibiotic Misuse
