Superbug: Nature's Revenge - Why Antibiotics Can Breed Disease

by Geoffrey Cannon (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $11.52

  Antibiotics founded the fortunes of the drug industry and shaped the medical profession. But antibiotics put at risk our ability to resist disease, as new plagues of infection caused by Superbugs (bacteria that have learned to resist antibiotics) now threaten humanity. While antibiotics have been a miracle cure, conquering epidemic diseases once the scourge of humanity, they have also become a nightmare. Using evidence gathered from scientists, Geoffrey Cannon sets out to show that antibiotics as now used, do more harm than good. The book also includes a 50-page A-Z of every antibiotic now available. The author has also written The Food Scandal and Dieting Makes You Fat .

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.23

  For 50 years, modern medicine has waged war on bacteria with antibiotics. These drugs founded the fortunes of the drug industry and shaped the medical profession. But antibiotics put at risk our ability to resist disease. New plagues of infections caused by superbugs (bacteria that have learned to resist antibiotics) now threaten the population's health. This book suggests that antibiotics do more harm than good. By the year 2000, up to 50,000 tons of antibiotics will be used worldwide on humans and animals every year; the abuse of antibiotics in developing countries create superbugs that travel over the world causing new types of disease. The overuse and abuse of antibiotics has created a disturbance in the natural world that could have a serious and damaging long-term effect. The book includes an A-Z of antibiotics and their effects.