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Incredibly Unwell India
With bacterial diseases emerging that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics, governments should step up monitoring, develop new lines of treatment and prevent overuse. In his column for Businessworld, YaleGlobal Editor Nayan Chanda points out how a manufacturing hub for a product encourages consumer use: “The rise of the country’s $12.4 billion pharmaceutical industry, producer of nearly one-third of the world’s antibiotics, has seen the proliferation of powerful generic drugs to every corner of India. Until recently, local chemists in any small town would hand strips of antibiotics, without a prescription, to customers complaining of common ailments like diarrhea, fever or cough.” As a result, researchers have identified India as a source for some superbugs: Up to 90 percent of Indians could have drug-resistant bacteria in their bodies, generally harmless for them but a threat for foreign visitors. India set up a task force and now requires presc