Antibiotics can be lifesaving. One of the most significant discoveries in the history of medicine, they successfully fought waves of cholera, smallpox, plague, typhoid fever, malaria, leprosy, and syphilis. They are medications that act against bacterial infections, like Legionnaires’ disease (a type of lung infection), Lyme disease, meningitis, strep throat, tuberculosis, whooping cough, bloodstream infections, […]