- Trillions of microbes affect every stage of life of humans from birth to old age. Our health and well-being are really driven by the bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa that live in our intestines, in our lungs, in our skin, and even on our eye balls. The bugs are essential for establishing the basic nature of who we are.
Escherichia coli - Escherichia coli is a bacteria which inhabit the human gut and perform essential functions.
- They make vitamins K and B12 .
- They also repel disease causing bacteria.
The effects of microbiomes can be profound.- A child's temperament might be related to whether the bacteria in an infant's gut are predominantly from one genus : the more Bifidobacterium bugs , the sunnier the baby.
- There are 38 trillion microbes for a typical young adult male, slightly more than the number of actual human cells.
- Diseases spread throughout populations are considered epidemics when more than 400 people out of every 100,000 are affected.
- Pandemics are those that sweep across wide geographic areas, such as the influenza pandemic that followed the World War 1.,killing more people than had died during the war.
