If there was a way to make certain viruses and bacteria extinct, should we do it?

Question

If there was a way to make certain viruses and bacteria extinct, should we do it?

Answer 1

No!Only invent medicine to prevent them from harming people's health,but never make them extinct.We are all here thanks to bacterias.If there wasn't any bacterias,there wouldn't be a human life too.As they do harm for us,they help us in many many ways.Read little more about it before pressing EXTINCT button :)

Cheers!

Answer 2

viruses i agree bec they are only harmful

but bacteria it depends on that CERTAIN

Answer 3

I don't think that we should. I don't know a whole lot about bacteria and viruses, but what I do know is they, like every other species, evolve. If we eradicate some of them, there are bound to be worse ones, and having done away with the previous ones, our immune systems will not have had a chance to develop antibodies to fight the new strains of bacteria.

Answer 4

No, I don't.  Bacteria, in particular, is important for the human body to become stronger, and more immune.

Look at all the folks who are obsessing about organic foods - in many cases, they are far less healthy than those of us who eat the fruits and veggies in the stores that have been sprayed or otherwise treated.  The human body is an incredible machine that can adapt and overcome many things - but if it isn't tested, the immunity level is not high enough to fight off run of the mill bugs.

Answer 5

Yes. Nature has had ways to keep these things under control -- sometimes successfully and sometimes not.

We actually keep these things alive as well as trying to kill them. In nature, the host of a bacteria or virus often dies. The bacteria and virus cannot survive without it.

It is likely HIV and other deadly diseases result because we have found a way to keep much less harmful viruses and bacteria alive for further transmission. SIV is not deadly in primates, but HIV became deadly in humans.

I think these are often more questions of whether we should use medicine and technology do to what nature would otherwise do anyway.

A person with an infection is likely to die, so too will the infecting virus or bacteria. Does it matter if we kill that virus by the person dying or the use of antiviral drug? Just food for thought.

Answer 6

no that's a mistake. its just as easy to keep a small stain alive out in the middle of nowhere. we might invent some use for it, or we might even need it to control some other virus outbreak. at that point its a natural resource. we may never need it, but once its gone its gone. as long as their are still problems in the world, its just foolish to eradicate a potential solution.