Although I’ve never been to Mexico I’ve read that for years Mexicans have been able to walk into a pharmacy and get various antibiotics without a prescription.Presumably the same happens elsewhere in the world.Add to that Westerners who demand antibiotics for every little sniffle and disaster was bound to happen.
And the irony is that antibiotics have no effect against colds, or the flu, which are viruses.
You can buy anything at a Mexican Pharmacia.
A few things require prescription but often there is an ‘MD’ next door who writes them for a few bucks wo even seeing you.
Used to live in El Paso.
When they restricted steroid sales in the US people were lined up for blocks in Juarez to buy them...idiots!
I think even Mexico has since restricted steroid sales. (T not E)
Add to those problems the fact most beef,pork and chicken sold in this country comes from animals fed antibiotics daily.
India.
Also....The antibiotics fed routinely to animals.
I used to go to Guadalajara one week out of the month on business. I would regularly buy antibotics and put them in the emergence earthquake disaster kit here at home.