NZ doctors prescribing antibiotics too readily - experts

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Infectious disease experts are reporting Kiwi doctors are prescribing them to patients who do not need them and New Zealand now has one of the highest rates of antiobiotic resistance in the world. The report by the Public Health Communication Centre said if New Zealand doesn't get its use of antibiotics under control there will be increased death and disability from untreatable bacterial infections in the coming decades. President of the Royal College of GPs Samantha Murton speaks to Susana Lei'ataua.

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