Without germs, we're nothing
Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em. Some bacteria can easily kill us. But without bacteria, we'd die.
Dennis Kunkel
Bacteria outnumber us a trillion to one. So it's a good thing most of them are friendly.
Gerald Callahan, the author of Infection: The Uninvited Universe, talks about why we need bacteria to survive.
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