the microbes arn't stable

I feel that microbes are not out of control. First, they all relate to infectious diseases. Second, they all present growing risks to health to people in the Canada and around the world. And third, they have been on the radar screen for some time but the blips seem to be getting brighter, so they can't be ignored any longer. It's time to focus and take action. Bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases and microbes that are …

…can handle hundreds of thousands, if not millions of such challenges. For example, depending on the particular virus, we may be exposed to up to 10 foreign proteins during a single episode of an upper respiratory infection. A routine 'strep throat' will present between 25 and 50 foreign proteins to the immune system. Modern vaccines are made of refined components of the organism, therefore actually present less of a challenge to the immune system than an infection would.