Sooner or later Quote by Sean Chercover

“If I’m right, a new antibiotic will be created that fights Y. pestis using three different mechanisms.”

— Bobby Akart

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's…

— Anthony Fauci

“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“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

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong

“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

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

— Scott Gottlieb

“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

Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat.…

— Noam Chomsky

“exposure to antibiotics early in life causes microbial perturbations at a crucial time, just when organs and systems are developing.”

— Martin J. Blaser