Posted September 5, 2014
Margaret Riley, Ph.D professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst considers taking a course of antibiotics analogous to ingesting a hydrogen bomb that indiscriminately kills everything in its path. Riley explains that antibiotics kill not only the bad and the ugly (bacteria), but also the good. They are not smart bombs or laser-guided missiles that only destroy a designated target. And it’s the good bacteria that keep the bad bacteria in check and even signal other areas of our immune systems to release anti-pathogenic “killer cells”. Read more.