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Two sisters, 10 and 12, had been bothered for months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as...
Using U.S. students in Mexico City as willing guinea pigs, Dr. Kean and colleagues tested the value of drugs as preventives. They found that a popular nonprescription item, Entero-Vioform, gave no more protection than an inert (dummy) pill; an antibiotic, neomycin, appeared to give about 40% protection. But before...
¶ Cycloserine, an antibiotic used against tuberculosis, has such a narrow safety margin that a slight overdose can cause grand mal seizures. It is also blamed for severe emotional reactions and is dangerous for patients with kidney damage.
Millions of Americans-the estimates run between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000-keep parakeets for pets, and every year about 300 happy bird owners come down with psittacosis ("parrot fever," also called ornithosis). Before the discovery of antibiotics, psittacosis was unbeatable, killed scores of people in the U.S...
Dr. Meyer has put in 40 years as a specialist in bird and animal diseases, most of the time at the University of California's Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis...