Quotes on bacteria and viruses

If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is corrupted, it affects your conscience.

The heart is the Sun. The gut is the Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system 5 senses are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within. So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of reasoning, and your senses.

Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful The microbes choke and die after a few hours.

Another thought came to me also, If this is true, the same thing will have probably occurred in the sick man. In his intestine, as in my test-tube, the dysentery bacilli will have dissolved away under the action of their parasite. He should now be cured. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront.

Because of their distinct biochemistry, it should come as no surprise that bacteria and viruses differ in how they cause infection. Viruses infect a host cell and then multiply by the thousands, leaving the host cell and infecting other cells of the body.

A viral infection will therefore be systemic , spreading throughout the body. Pathogenic bacteria have a more varied operation and will often infect when the right opportunity arises, so called opportunistic infection. The infection caused by pathogenic bacteria is usually confined to a part of the body, described as a localized infection.

These infections may be caused by the bacteria themselves or by toxins endotoxins they produce. Examples of bacterial disease include pneumonia , tuberculosis , tetanus , and food poisoning. Viruses can infect bacteria. Bacteria are not immune to viral hijackers which are known as bacteriophages —viruses that infect bacteria. Image by Venngage Infographic Maker. Sardoodledom Scripps Bee clip goes viral. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Unless we change our destructive ways, we become that host. We are well on our way toward 9 billion before our growth trend is likely to flatten. We live at high densities in many cities. We have penetrated, and we continue to penetrate, the last great forests and other wild ecosystems of the planet, disrupting the physical structures and the ecological communities of such places.

We cut our way through the Congo. We cut our way through the Amazon. We cut our way through Borneo. We cut our way through Madagascar. We cut our way through New Guinea and northeastern Australia. We shake the trees, figuratively and literally, and things fall out. We kill and butcher and eat many of the wild animals found there. We settle in those places, creating villages, work camps, towns, extractive industries, new cities.

We bring in our domesticated animals, replacing the wild herbivores with livestock. We multiply our livestock as we've multiplied ourselves, operating huge factory-scale operations involving thousands of cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, and goats, not to mention hundreds of bamboo rats and palm civets, all confined en masse within pens and corrals, under conditions that allow those domestics and semidomestics to acquire infectious pathogens from external sources such as bats roosting over the pig pens , to share those infections with one another, and to provide abundant opportunities for the pathogens to evolve new forms, some of which are capable of infecting a human as well as a cow or a duck.

We treat many of those stock animals with prophylactic doses of antibiotics and other drugs, intended not to cure them but to foster their weight gain and maintain their health just sufficiently for profitable sale and slaughter, and in doing that we encourage the evolution of resistant bacteria. We export and import livestock across great distances and at high speeds.

We export and import other live animals, especially primates, for medical research. First the dogs kept inside, now the humans. Must feel like they've won. Bounty lovers laughing at the rest of the world.

Social Distancing I looked into her eyes, deep into the emerald green, my heart fluttered, I felt a connection, something deeper, something magical, I was transported to another place and I thought, blimey these binoculars are brilliant. Others are here to offer you some words of motivation in this tough time, whether quoting their favourite author or coming up with a bespoke phrase to suit the coronavirus situation.

A particularly relevant quote for this time of working from home and social distancing. StayHome pic. Some people are finding domestic life is either ridiculous, unbearable, or - for the unsociable among us - remarkably similar to the way it was before the Covid pandemic. Christina Aguilera likened quarantine to her hit 'Genie in a bottle' and we are totally here for it.