Antibiotics Quote by Norman Swan

“We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.”

Norman Swan

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I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production…

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I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it…

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I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

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Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to…

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