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WHO says antibiotics for common diseases no longer effective

By By GATONYE GATHURA | May. 3, 2014

By GATONYE GATHURA

Many drugs in the local health sector, even for most common diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea, are no longer working, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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