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to a staggering 2.1 million in 2004.4 The war against disease has given us,
amongst other things, antibiotics. At first, they were spectacularly successful,
seemingly enabling us to win the war against infectious diseases. Now many
experts agree that the widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has
created a time bomb and that antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, so-called
super bugs, will in all likelihood bring about a reemergence of those diseases
and possibly epidemics. According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart
disease and cancer in the United States. Homeopathy and Chinese medicine
are two examples of possible alternative approaches to disease that do not
treat the illness as an enemy and therefore do not create new diseases.
War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set
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