Protecting Yourself and Your Family | Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance | CDC

Protecting Yourself and Your Family | Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance | CDC

Staying safe while travelling

CDC’s Travelers’ Health is dedicated to helping travelers and their clinicians prevent illness and 

injury during international travel.  For information related to your travel destination, including 

needed vaccines and updated travel health notices, visit Travelers’ Health

Antibiotic Resistance Education Programs

• Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work
• Get Smart for Healthcare
• Food Safety
• Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
• Preventing Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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High Risk Groups

People at Especially High Risk

As resistance grows, the antibiotics used to treat infections do not work as well or at all.  The loss of effective antibiotic treatments will not only cripple the ability to fight routine infectious disease but will also undermine treatment of infectious complications in patients with other disease.  Many of the advances in medical treatment – joint replacements, organ transplants, cancer therapy, and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis – are dependent on the ability to fight infections with antibiotics.  If that ability is lost, the ability to safely offer people many life-saving and life-improving modern medical advantages will be lost with it.  For example:

  

For specific information on preventing infections in patients receiving chemotherapy, visit CDC’s Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients

  

  

  

  

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