How strange yet fitting that the future of nature's greatest creature, man, depends upon an intimate cooperation with nature's least, the germ. -Philip Tierno

 

How strange yet fitting that the future of nature's greatest creature, man, depends upon an intimate cooperation with nature's least, the germ.


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This was predictable. Microorganisms respond to chemical physical changes in an environment. Everything that you do to your body affects the microorganisms that live there.

Philip Tierno

It's a wicked bug, ... It's an environmental organism that's wherever the soldiers are -- in the water, in the trenches. It's able to survive literally anywhere -- in food, on human skin, and in the bowels and intestines of humans. And it has become highly antibiotic-resistant, with all sorts of enzymes that incapacitate antibiotics and a pumping mechanism that literally pumps out the medicine.

Philip Tierno

How strange yet fitting that the future of nature's greatest creature, man, depends upon an intimate cooperation with nature's least, the germ.

Philip Tierno

Eighty percent of all infections are transmitted by direct and indirect contact.

Philip Tierno