treebee said:

Most people in the UK will be aware of the little boys who visted a petting zoo, contracted e-coli and ended up having transfusions to save thier kidneys. There is a bit of a hoo ha about petting zoos now and politicians are calling for it to be made illegal for small children to pet animals.

Im in the school of thought that we are going too far to fight bacteria. We have anti-bacterial dishwashing liquid, surface wipes, chopping boards etc. which are actually killing the good bacteria as well as the bad and people are supplementing thier diets with culture drinks such as yakult etc to get the good bacteria.

This is madness. We all get tummy upset and colds from time to time. The products to kill germs are being presented to us like they could save our lives when they are IMO what is causing the problem in the first place.

People are becoming less and less tolerant of our environment and our food and when we do get sick antibiotics are not working any more because more bacteria is becoming resistant.

link [www.telegraph.co.uk]

are we over reacting about germs and illness?