In his book Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser explains how our use of antibiotics over the past eighty years is greatly altering the three-billion-year-old microbiome that resides in our bodies. He lays out with clarity and vision why what I call “supermicrobial evolution in our modern world” poses a real and new danger for our future encounters with infectious diseases. What we are dealing with, to put it plainly, is a slow-motion worldwide pandemic. With each passing year, we lose a percentage of our antibiotic firepower. In a very real sense, we confront the possibility of revisiting the
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