Part 4 of With All Our Mites, featuring Thomas McDade, biological anthropologist at Northwestern University, on how the tiny critters that live on and in us help and protect us.

With All our Mites:
Part 1: Michelle Trautwein / Face Mites
Part 2: Matt Bertone / Domestic Minifauna
Part 3: Joshua Benoit / Bed Bugs
Part 4: Thomas McDade / Our Microbe Guardians

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