Many people live in the USA without adequate health coverage. According to the USA census bureau, in 2009, there were about 50 million people, translating to about 16% of the US population that was living without health insurance. You cannot say these 50 million uninsured people live without health challenges. But how do they take care of themselves and how do they obtain some obvious medication without visiting a doctor's office.
For many years, folks in rural communities have been known to take antibiotics intended for livestock. When you work at a farm, injuries are a fact of life and you soon get to find out what works and what doesn't.
Now, with the use of online media, more and more people are finding ways to bypass going to hospital to get an adequate consultation and appropriate treatment.
Online retailer AMAZON.COM has a booming business that caters to pet owners. Some of the goods it sells are listed as antibiotics for pets.
As such, you have products with names like FishAmox which is nothing more than Amoxicillin. other anti parasitic medication and antibiotics are found on the site.
Abuse of these medications by using them in the wrong doses and applications can lead to the development of resistance to these drugs. There is only so many tools we have to fight disease and mankind has a duty to preserve the effectiveness of drugs that took many years to develop.
Hopefully, the abuse of these online antibiotics is not widespread and maybe someday, there will be a sensible legislation that will regulate this commerce.
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