Antibiotic use is declining though not soon enough. When I was a child my older sister used to get strep throat annually. When she did, the family doctor would prescribe antibiotics for all of us, even if we weren't sick. At least they aren't doing that anymore.

@JonnaBononna a few years - well in the last ten I got a very pinful throat infection. After three days of burning pain I couldn't stand it any longer & started chewing on a lovely fresh garlic clove the size of half my thumb. As the juice burningly trickled down my throat I tried to swirl it around my inflamed larynx. Fifteen seconds later I had no pain, no sore throat!
I've sworn by it ever since but thankfully have not had to repeat the cure.