Dimensions
140 x 214 x 23mm
Includes Must-Read Guidance on Risk Protection!
Despite the remarkable advances of medical science, despite the fact that diseases that once decimated entire populations are themselves extinct, germs and microbes are challenging medicine in ways that were unimaginable only a decade ago.
Germs are now being linked to a host of ailments, and every year some new horror story on killer germs surfaces. Suddenly it seems that there is an explosion of infections never before reported in modern history, all caused by arcane germs.
In this book, Dr Philip Tierno explains what kinds of threats actually exist by revealing the mechanisms behind some 150 recent germ "events". He dismantles sensationalist media scares to offer a glimpse of the underlying principles of the miracle of life, and takes the reader into the elegantly ordered world of microbes. He discusses pioneers of the "Germ Century", such as Louis Pasteur, examines the "germ factory" that is the human body, and scrutinises a typical home.
Find out here why it's a good idea to clean children's toys, why those fluffy towels may not be so clean, and why you never want to buy a second-hand mattress.
Yet with all this potentially terrifying information, Dr Tierno is at heart an optimist. The recycling of matter, he explains, is the key to the perpetuation of life as we know it. Were it not for the action of germs, the earth would be uninhabitable. And as far as all those horror stories are concerned, Dr Tierno concludes that more often than not human beings are the perpetrators of microecology disturbances. And there is a lot we can do to prevent our own suffering.
