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Group B streptococcus infections strike four of every 1000 babies, about 15,000 cases a year. Thirty per cent of those infected die despite antibiotic therapy, and many that live suffer severe neurologic disorders.
The vaccine, made from the sugar coating of the bacteria, is particularly important because it will be useful against new strains of pneumonia recently found that are resistant to the usual antibiotic treatment.
The CDC reported that at least twelve deaths at the Burlington hospital could be attributed to Legionnaires' disease. Officials suspected that the total number of people stricken by the baffling illness in Vermont over the past two months was at least 54-and most likely dozens more. That would...
Sister Wilmer reached Kalaupapa at a propitious moment. The first medications more effective than the Asian ancients' chaulmoogra oil had been developed by U.S. researchers, tested at the Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, and just released for use in Hawaii. The best-known and most widely used is...
In this connection, I would question the specification, in the Guidelines that an EK2 strain must have a survival frequency of less than 10-8 under natural conditions (interpreted by the committee as residual viability after 24 hours). Just as infection can be dramatically cured by a bacteriostatic antibiotic, such...