COPENHAGEN: Misuse of antibiotics is denting their efficacy and spawning resistant bacteria, which could be responsible for millions of deaths around the world by 2050, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
WHO's European chapter conducted a study which showed that antibiotics were prescribed for things like the common cold (24 percent of cases), flu-like symptoms (16 percent), a sore throat (21 percent) and a cough (18 percent).
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