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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Are soaps and sanitizers breeding superbugs?
« on: 03/10/2008 22:04:46 »
Jeremy Mode asked the Naked Scientists:
What are the antimicrobials (soaps and sanitizers) doing to the evolution of the human immune system?
If we are killing off all the bacteria and viruses that would normally stimulate our immune system, what is stimulating the evolution of the immune system, in this supper sanitized society? How deficient has the immune system become over the last 50 years and are we breeding superbugs using antimicrobials?
Is there any parallels to the misuse of the Antibiotics.
This is in response to the show on 9/22/2008
What do you think?
What are the antimicrobials (soaps and sanitizers) doing to the evolution of the human immune system?
If we are killing off all the bacteria and viruses that would normally stimulate our immune system, what is stimulating the evolution of the immune system, in this supper sanitized society? How deficient has the immune system become over the last 50 years and are we breeding superbugs using antimicrobials?
Is there any parallels to the misuse of the Antibiotics.
This is in response to the show on 9/22/2008
What do you think?