Even though people tend to wash themselves regularly and tidey their homes the UK seems to be under attack from a plague of bedbugs.
According to pest control experts Rentokil the mite population has increased by 38% over the past year.
Rob Dunn, professor of biology at North Carolina University, however, says that a lot of these parasites and bacteria are working with us rahter than against us and he tries to explain how this works exactly in his new book The Wild Life Of Our Bodies.
He explains what creatures are living where on our bodies and tells us why they are there in the first place. Skin, mouth, eyebrows, lungs, colon, ankle and feet seem to be the most attractive areas for parasites and bacteria.
---Original Article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3542887/Body-is-full-of-worms-mites-fungi.html
My take on this:
I was aware of the fact that there are many creatures living on- and in our bodies, but I had no clue that there were this many! Thank God that they're not all bad or harmful. It actually seems that most of them are either neutral or beneficial to us, but they sometimes have 'nasty' side effects such as smelly feet... An interesting article to read, but I probably wouldn't want to read the entire book on this subject.
I would want to read the entire book on the subject. I even think it's a pity that the article doesn't give a variety of point of information from the book itself.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI think it's rather interesting, though highly disgusting. I want to be the only one in constant touch with my body rawr.
Regards,
Dennis