Antibiotics
Questions
1. Discuss the issues raised in the Antibiotics story with another student.
2. What do antibiotics do?
3. What impact have antibiotics had on controlling disease?
4. Who discovered penicillin?
5. Describe how he discovered penicillin by accident.
6. What Australian scientist helped turn this discovery into an antibiotic?
7. In Australia how many antibiotic prescriptions are filled each year?
a. 2 thousand
b. 2 million
c. 22 million
8. Antibiotic resistant superbugs might soon become a serious medical problem. True or false?
9. When taking antibiotics it is important that you.....
10. Can you think of any other scientific inventions that have directly affected people’s lives?
2. What do antibiotics do?
3. What impact have antibiotics had on controlling disease?
4. Who discovered penicillin?
5. Describe how he discovered penicillin by accident.
6. What Australian scientist helped turn this discovery into an antibiotic?
7. In Australia how many antibiotic prescriptions are filled each year?
a. 2 thousand
b. 2 million
c. 22 million
8. Antibiotic resistant superbugs might soon become a serious medical problem. True or false?
9. When taking antibiotics it is important that you.....
10. Can you think of any other scientific inventions that have directly affected people’s lives?