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Persuasion Speech: Antibacterial products are dangerous to your health How many of you have ever gotten sick and have needed to go to the doctors? How many of you have ever had to clean your house? So, we all have used antibacterial products whether it is from the doctor’s office, which is called antibiotics, or from house cleaning products such as Clorox, or Purell, which you use to clean your hands. Once you use antibacterial products enough times your body will become immune to the antibacterial products and will help house more bacteria in your body making it harder to fight off illnesses. According to the New York Times survey, about 95% of the population has ever gotten sick to the point where they have needed to go to the doctor to get antibiotics (No author 1). The two main types of germs — bacteria and viruses — cause most infections. Antibiotics, which were first used in the 1950s, can cure bacterial illness such as an ear infection, strep throat and many others, but antibiotics cannot cure viral infections. They also target and destroy different bacteria, which is why certain antibiotics are better at resolving some infections than others (No author 1). As the resistant strain within the bacterial population increases over time, the drugs become less effective. The more antibiotics we use, the more likely it is that bacteria will become resistant. The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, estimated that the annual cost of treating antibiotic-resistant infections in the U.S. might be as high as $30 billion (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). A person recovers from a viral infection such as sore throats, colds or the flu only fully recover when the illness has run its course. Widespread use of antibiotics generates a strain of resistant bacteria, causing them to lose their effectiveness, according to Dr. Stuart Levy who works for Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts who equates antibacterial substances to antibiotics. "Antibiotics are critical to the treatment of bacterial infections," he explained in a presentation at the 2000 Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. "However, after years of overuse and misuse of these drugs, bacteria have developed antibiotic resistance, which has become a global health crisis. The relatively recent increase of surface antibacterial agents or biocides into healthy households may contribute to the resistance problem." A study conducted by Dr.
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