Item #212178 Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us. Robert Buckman.

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Item #212178
ISBN: 0801874076


Your body has 100 trillion cells, but only 10 trillion are human. The rest belong to the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites that live on or in us. Some of these tenants are actually beneficial, aiding in the digestion process, for example. The majority of them neither help nor hurt us, but simply co-exist with us. A few species, however, from the cholera bacilli to tapeworms and lice, can be dangerous, and sometimes deadly.

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