Writing Exercise #9

List and describe as many changes in human behaviors as you can think of that contribute to decreased exposure to microbes.

  • Antibiotic use: The improvement of medical access to our society increase the intake of antibiotic in our population and decrease the diversity of microbes in our body.
  • Parents education: Nowadays, most parents have some level of education on health and how germ and bacteria could harm our health. So they often forbidden they kids to do some activity like playing in the mud, touching plants or unknown insect, which will lower the possibility of explore to new microbes.
  • sterilization: Due to the improvement on our technology, we have sterilization machine everywhere in the public place, like school, hospital, mall, and park. It increasing the rate of constantly killing the bacteria on our skin.
  • cleaning product: Most of the chemical product we have today could kill at least 90% of the bacteria on a surface of our environment, and constantly using these kind of product on the our environment had decreased the  microbes surrounding us.
  • cooking food: In the past, lots of culture foods are base on marinated or half cook foods, which could still have a lots of microbes on them. But after the bird fluid, people have start cooking their food longer and stop eating food if there are not fully cook.
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