![]() ![]() They inhabit the soil, air, rocks and water and are present within every form of life, from seaweed and coral to dogs and humans. ![]() Invisible to the naked eye, they are ubiquitous. Microbes, most of them bacteria, have populated this planet since long before animal life developed and they will be here long after we have gone. They were too busy jabbing him full of adrenaline to calm his overwrought immune system. According to the book I’m reading, I told the medics gathered round his bed, the surge in allergies over the past fifty years could be due to our obsession with eradicating bacteria. ![]() H alfway through reading Ed Yong’s first book, I found myself in A&E with a son in anaphylactic shock after he unwittingly ate some nuts. ![]()
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