Describe beneficial and harmful impacts of prokaryotes on human health and give some specific examples.

Prokaryotes have both harmful and beneficial impacts on humans. Half of human diseases are caused by Prokaryotes while other prokaryotes serve as essential tools in agriculture and industry.
The bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes lung disease tuberculosis and 2 to 3 million people die in a year. Another 2 million die from diarrhea caused by other prokaryotes. Lyme disease, caused by a bacterium carried by ticks, is the most widespread pest-carried disease in the United States. Furthermore if you don’t treat Lyme disease, it can lead to debilitating arthritis, heart disease, and nervous disorders.
Pathogens cause illness by producing poisons called exotoxins and endotoxins. Exotoxins are proteins secreted by prokaryotes. It can produce disease symptoms even if the prokaryote is not present.Endotoxins are lipopolysaccharide components of the outer membrane of some gram-negative bacteria.
E. coli is ordinarily a harmless symbiont in the human intestines. However, if a more harmful strain is introduced into other areas of your body, it can make you ill. It cause diarrhea and nausea and make infected person dehydrated. E coli is a very common cause of food poisoning. Prokaryotes are used to solve environmental problems, while they cause illness to human. Prokaryotes are used to as to remove pollutants from air, water, and soil is bioremediation. The most familiar example is the use of prokaryote decomposers to treat human sewage. Anaerobic bacteria decompose the organic matter into sludge, while aerobic microbes do the same to liquid wastes. In the mining industry, prokaryotes can be used to recover metals from ores, extracting gold from ore. Prokaryotes can be modified to produce vitamins, antibiotics, hormones, and many other