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-- Newspaper accounts publicized a startling flare-up of tuberculosis that was first detected last year at a high school in Westminster, California, a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles. The disease was apparently brought in by a 16-year-old Vietnamese immigrant who contracted it in her native country. Nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

The advent of AIDS demolished that thinking. The sight of tens of thousands of young people wasting away from a virus that no one had known about and no one knew how to fight was a sobering experience -- especially when drugs proved powerless to stop the virus and efforts to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Unfortunately, as Columbia University's Dr. Harold Neu observed in the journal Science, "bacteria are cleverer than men." Just as they have adapted to nearly every environmental niche on the planet, they have now begun adjusting to a world laced with antibiotics. It didn't take long. Just a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

By now nearly every disease organism known to medicine has become resistant to at least one antibiotic, and several are immune to more than one. One of the most alarming things about the cholera epidemic that has killed as many as 50,000 people in Rwandan refugee camps is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

-- About 25% of surgeries to implant tubes in children with chronic ear infections are undertaken too hastily, a new report says. The recommendation: more extensive antibiotic treatment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: May 9, 1994 | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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