Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

作者：Kenneth N. Timmis, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Juan L. Ramos, Omry Koren, Ana Elena Pérez‐Cobas, Karen F. Steward, Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, Elisabetta Caselli, M. Joanne Douglas, Clarissa Schwab, Virginia Rivero‐Buceta, Rafael Giraldo, Junkal Garmendia, Raymond J. Turner, Jessamyn I. Perlmutter, José Manuel Borrero‐de Acuña, Pablo I. Nikel, J. Bonnet, Angela Sessitsch, James Kenneth Timmis, Carla Pruzzo, M. Auxiliadora Prieto, Siavash Isazadeh, Wei E. Huang, Gerard Clarke, Danilo Ercolini, Max M. Häggblom · 发表于：Microbial Biotechnology · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1111/1751-7915.70068 · 被引用次数：19 · 研究领域：Zoonotic diseases and public health、Vibrio bacteria research studies、Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies

Given the overexploitation of the resources of planet Earth, due in large part to the ever-increasing human population (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/), which has already compromised vital planetary processes (https://reports.weforum.org/docs/ WEF_ Business_on_the_ Edge_ 2024.pdf), the limitations of which are encapsulated in planetary boundaries (Richardson et al. 2023; Guptaet al. 2024; https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/earth -exceed-safe-limit s-first-planetary-healt h-check-issue s-red-alert) and climate tipping points (Wunderling et al. 2023; Wunderling, von der Heydt, and Aksenov 2024), it would not be unexpected that a visitor from Mars might well be confused,or at least bemused, by our efforts to save lives and reduce mor-bidity. The Martian might be similarly bemused when it learned that although warfare is a constant feature of biosphere ecology, including human behaviour, with military personnel of opposing armies doing their best to kill one another, military physicians will try their best to save the lives of injured prisoners of the opposing side. But warfare and other activities of individuals and groups aimed at harming others notwithstanding, saving lives and preventing/reducing human suffering is an ingrained moral-ethical-humanitarian imperative (https://www. ohchr. org/sites/default/files/Documents/ Publications/Factsheet31.pdf). While we cannot prevent death, we try hard to prevent avoidable, pre...