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“But I believe Y. pestis has been modified into a superbug, one that is antibiotic resistant.”

— Bobby Akart

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

“Political life is best treated with antibiotics.”

— Colin Tegerdine

“The simplest explanation is that antibiotics lead to a shift in the overall equilibrium of our gut microbes. Some bugs become more dominant; others…

— Martin J. Blaser

“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.”

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon…

— Carl Zimmer

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent…

— Shinya Yamanaka

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being…

— Bonnie Bassler

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

— Charles V. Chapin

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Yeah. Penicillin. You know that? It's made of mold. Pretty cool huh, how one kind of rottenness can cure another kind of rottenness.”

— David Krae