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The recognition is now growing that the victory over microbes was short-lived. They are back in force, including familiar old enemies such as tuberculosis and staphylococcus in new drug-resistant strains. Other old diseases are on the march into new territories, as a response to climate change brought on by global warming . In response to unprecedented habitat destruction by humans and the invasion of wilderness, the earth itself seems to be sending forth new and much more lethal diseases, as though it had a protective immune system with antibody-like agents aimed with remarkable precision at the source of the problem: Homo sapiens. (en) |
