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how can resitance to antibiotics occur?

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basically, when you take an antibiotic, your body reacts in various ways. And one of them is to try to build up resistance to this invader (the antibiotic). And that in turn means that the same antibiotic may not be as effective for you the next time.

Even more dangerous - and definitely important in connection with the swine flu panic - is that viruses themselves change and mutate. (That is most probably how the current swine flu virus developed.) Virus can - and do - develop new strains that are resistant to the specific antibiotics that have been taken against them. That’s why it is so dangerous to try to take anti-swine flu antibiotics as a preventive - they DON’T prevent it (you have to have it first) and they can contribute to new and more lethal strains of the virus developing.

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