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Old 13-01-2005, 09:42 PM
 
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In article , Martin Cragg-Barber writes:
Microbes have already taken control.
Humanity's days are numbered.



But I thought we were hotels for microbes anyway in the same way that
oaks are hotels for galling organisms.

Hotels, pantries, transportation systems. The last probably the most
useful (for microbes). Consider, 6 centuries ago it took the Black
Death nearly a generation to travel fro East Asia to Europe.
Nowadays, we can move diseases between continents in a matter of
days:-)

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| chances are he is doing just the same"