Why a Sore Throat and a Scratched Knee Might Kill You
Waiting for a bad infection to strike with weak white blood cells lacking vitamin C and unprepared to fight. This is when a scratched knee or sore throat may kill.
A book called, “The Microbe Hunters”, thrilled me as a boy. It explained how bacterial diseases were responsible for killing millions of people in the past – and how years later antibiotics saved them. But even so, the World Health Organization (WHO) still warns that a sore throat or a scratched knee could kill us. The best defense is a strong immune system.
Dr. Margaret Chan, former Director-General of WHO, says we are at the end of modern medicine. She claims there is now a global crisis, a slow-motion tsunami, that has been building for years and is getting worse. The problem, super bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.