Our microbial planet Originally, 4.5 billion years ago, our planet was a lifeless sphere of molten metal. But after a billion years, the oceans were swarming with free living cells. Somehow, not yet entirely clear to science, life was born in these primeval seas. Some say that the first “bricks” of life flew dust from…
Read MoreMy personal journey to understanding that our microbial friends were having problems began on July 9, 1977. This date is well remembered – that’s when I first heard the name of the microbe Campylobacter, which literally gave rise to the cause of my life. I was a new graduate student at the infectious diseases Department…
Read MoreChapter 1. “Plague of Modernity» I didn’t know my father’s two sisters. They were born in a small town at the beginning of the last century and did not live to see their second birthday. One of these days, they have a high fever and, probably, there was something else. The situation was so serious…
Read MoreProblem Medicine – PART 1 Every drug carries a risk. It is impossible to create any chemical substance which would not create any risk neither for women, nor for men; as though it was accepted: through a mouth, a nose, an eye retina, subcutaneously, rectally or vaginally. It is tempting to focus only on those…
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