The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has launched this year's World Antimicrobial Week (WAAW) with a call on the public to refrain from using antibiotics to treat common influenza or coughs.
It cautioned that viruses that caused flu or colds were increasingly becoming resistant against available antibiotics hence it was important that the public purchased them only when prescribed. • Dr Samuel Kow Donkoh "Do not request for antibiotics when you have flu.
Most coughs, sore throats or colds are self-limiting and caused by viruses and do not require antibiotics, same way not all feverish conditions are due to malaria.
Test for malaria before taking antimalarials.