>>Intriguing that the Doctor said that removing the human bacteria from his system would take away half the things that are keeping him alive. What??!
Well, if you removed all the human bacteria from our systems, you would remove half the things keeping us alive--our systems are in a full-on symbiotic relationship with millions of bacteria that help us digest things, kill off other bugs, etc. I'm assuming that the decontamination procedures were carefully calculated to kill off the bacteria harmful to humans/Silurians but not the ones we need, since it didn't seem to hurt Amy. I'm guessing, therefore, that there are bacteria that are germs to humans but helpful to the Doctor, and the Silurian scientist, assuming the Doctor to be human, was killing them off.
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Well, if you removed all the human bacteria from our systems, you would remove half the things keeping us alive--our systems are in a full-on symbiotic relationship with millions of bacteria that help us digest things, kill off other bugs, etc. I'm assuming that the decontamination procedures were carefully calculated to kill off the bacteria harmful to humans/Silurians but not the ones we need, since it didn't seem to hurt Amy. I'm guessing, therefore, that there are bacteria that are germs to humans but helpful to the Doctor, and the Silurian scientist, assuming the Doctor to be human, was killing them off.