County of Los Angeles
Department of Public Health
Acute Communicable Disease Control
313 N. Figueroa Street, Room 212
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 240-7941
Fax: (213) 482-4856
E-Mail:acdc2@ph.lacounty.gov
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Acute Communicable Disease Control
Resources for Consumers
Education Materials
Introduction
What is Antibiotic Resistance? This question and answer page gives background
information about this public health problem and what you can do to help keep antibiotics
working for you and the whole community.
Newsletters
Do you have a cold? Antibiotics are not the answer. Your Health - A quarterly newsletter
that is distributed to all county clinics, schools and libraries featured this article to
address appropriate antibiotic use especially during cold and flu season. Available in
English or
Spanish
Education Materials
Antibiotic Resistance: When you have a bacterial infection and the medicine doesn't work:
This is a fact sheet available at student health centers from several Southern California
college campuses including UCLA, USC, CalTech and Cal State University – Long Beach.
The following major news networks have provided a “click and learn” series of
interactives on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance.
CBS News Interactive: Eye on Antibiotics
This interactive includes an introduction on how antibiotics work, antibiotics in
animal feed and a timeline history of antibiotics.
Introduction
