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zahlmantoday at 4:37 PM0 repliesview on HN

Unregulated use of antibiotics has negative consequences for the rest of society, in that it promotes antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. Many people try to take antibiotics (and pressure doctors for prescriptions) for likely viral infections where there's no chance of them working. Most people aren't great with attention to detail (qv: you misspelled both antibiotic names) and won't finish a course of antibiotics if symptoms fade even when they're explicitly instructed to do so (which, again, is important for avoiding the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains).

The regulation occurs for a damn good reason.

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