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Quoted in Robert S. Boyd, "Despite Bad Reputation, Bacteria Are Vital to Life," Buffalo News, June 22, 2003, p. H-6.
Quoted in Boyd, "Despite Bad Reputation," p. H-6.
J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 3.
Quoted in Arno Karlen, Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Putnam's, 1995, p. 55.
Quoted in Kathy A. Svitil, "Did Viruses Make Us Human?" Discover, November 2002. www.discover.com.

6. Quoted in William M. Bowsky, The Black Death: A Turning Point in History? New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971, p. 13.
7. Quoted in Bowsky, The Black Death, p. 13.
8. Quoted in James Cross Giblin, When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS. New York: HarperCollins, 1995, p. 70.
9. Quoted in Giblin, When Plague Strikes, p. 76.
10. Quoted in Giblin, When Plague Strikes, p. 32.
11. Quoted in History Learning Site, "Medicine in Ancient Rome," 2002. www.historylearningsite.co.uk.
12. Quoted in Warnar Moll, "Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Delft Biography," 2003. www.eronet.nl/users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html.
13. Quoted in Moll, "Antonie van Leeuwenhoek."
14. Quoted in David M. Locke, Viruses: The Smallest Enemy. New York: Crown, 1974, p. 20.

15. Quoted in Giblin, When Plague Strikes, p. 95.
16. Quoted in Jenner Museum, "The Final Conquest of the Speckled Monster," 2003. www.jennermuseum.com.
17. Quoted in Pete Moore, Killer Germs: Rogue Diseases of the Twenty-first Century. London: Carlton, 2001, p. 7.
18. Quoted in Giblin, When Plague Strikes, p. 143.
19. Quoted in Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin, The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002, p. 35.

20. Quoted in Boyd, "Despite Bad Reputation," p. H-6.
21. Quoted in Boyd, "Despite Bad Reputation," p. H-6.
22. Quoted in Nancy Shute, "SARS Hits Home," U.S. News & World Report, May 5, 2003, p. 40.
23. Quoted in Stephen S. Hall, "On the Trail of the West Nile Virus," Smithsonian, July 2003, p. 94.

24. Quoted in Purdue News, "Munching Microbes Make a Meal out of Toxic Substances," April 1997. www.purdue.edu.
25. The Guinness Book of World Records. Stamford, CT: Guinness Media, 1998, p. 316.

26. Daniel W. Drell, Anna Palmisano, and Marvin E. Frazier, "Microbial Genomes: An Information Base for 21st Century Microbiology," U.S. Department of Energy, 2000. www.sc.doe.gov.
27. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, "Microbial Genomics Research," 2003, p. 1.
28. Richard P. Feynman, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," Engineering & Science, February 1960, p. 1.
29. Quoted in Deborah Smith, "Starting Small: Scientist Uses Viruses as Building Blocks for New Technology," SMH.com.au, 2003. www.smh.com.au.

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