2217 What doesn't respond to antibiotics?

This is a quiz, a useful one, and it is from USAToday. Actually, it isn't a quiz, it is the answers to a quiz.

Which ailments/illnesses do not respond to antibiotics?

• cold
• flu
• chest cold
• bronchitis

These do, with caveats

• pneumonia (if it is bacterial and not viral)
• whooping cough (if diagnosed early)

So why do 50% of people with bronchitis receive an antibiotic--the overuse of which is a major health threat?

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