Fighting antimicrobial resistance with Antibiotic Awareness Week
Heather Ainsley
ECB Publishing, Inc.
The human body is an incredible feat of nature. The complex system of organs, tissues, muscles, bone, chemicals and electrical signals is an excellent organic machine that keeps us alive and healthy, and the human body even has procedures in place for when things go wrong. Occasionally, things in the body can go terribly wrong, and this is when modern medicine can be a fantastic aid to our recovery, boosting our body's natural ability to heal.
Infections are one of the most common ways that a person can become ill. There are two general types of infection: viral and bacterial. A viral infection is caused by a virus, which is a small, infectious organ