Craig Venter - Are We Too Over-Reliant on Antibiotics?

[locouk]

We need bactiria to give our immune systems a kick up the jacksie every now and then. A sterile world would leave us open to minor ailments doing more dammage to us.

I try to ride out an infection, thus making m immune system stronger..

[chilledkirby]

@locouk I agree. Not only to mention making US more prone to minor ailments, but over long periods of time, multiple generations that is, it weakens the ancestor's ability to fight infection permanently. 

[vsktube]

Is that a joke to laugh.....

it really indicates the lack of awareness among the masses.. They live in a fallacy that there is no danger at all....

Maybe they need two more pandemics like swine flu to get their 'ass on fire'.

Whole civilisations and species are eradicated due to lack of resistance to microbes.

I wish that Mr Brand is good at questions that 'circumvent'.

[A4AgnstcFndmntlst]

I totally agree. For quite some time I thought people have gone way overboard with the antibiotics. 1) I believe people don't build up a resistance. 2) It leaves the more resistant bacteria to survive, then by natural selection bacteria become more and more resistant.