Nigeria: How to Live Safely Without Infections

28 May 2007

Lagos — Health experts warn that micro-organisms or germs are all around us. It is near impossible for homo sapiens to see them with the naked human eyes as much as they are all around us.

Most often, it is infection from these germs that cause some of the life-threatening diseases that pin down patients in hospitals. This has made one of the world's leading experts on infection, Professor John Oxford to sum up thus: "We have come from a world of infection, we live in a world of infection, and in the future, unless we take control of infection now, we will continue to live in a world of infection".

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