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...have been Life: The Silent Killer. Not only are the things necessary for survival--food, clothing, water--impending Petri dishes of doom, the products used to clean these things may very well be contaminated. Mendelson describes sponges the way Alan Keyes talks about the "radical homosexual agenda"--breeders of bacteria threatening our very way of life. Since there's no way I'm together enough to constantly launder a pile of rags and dish towels, I'll keep using sponges, reassuring myself that if I have to choose between microscopic organisms from the sponge and, say, a rapidly molding glop...
...more oxygen to the mix of gases patients breathe while they're under the knife can cut in half the incidence of wound infection--a serious complication that can prolong hospital stays and even result in death. Among other things, the added oxygen helps white blood cells fight off bacteria. The news comes just three months after the same researchers found that upping oxygen also halves the rate of postoperative vomiting and nausea. The cost of oxygen? Less than 3[cents] a patient...
...start with medicine. In 1928 the young Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming sloppily left a lab dish growing bacteria on a bench when he went on vacation. It got contaminated with a Penicillium mold spore, and when he returned, he noticed that the mold seemed to stop the growth of the germs. His serendipitous discovery would eventually save more lives than were lost in all the century's wars combined...
Sometimes, he said, because of poor public health regulation, travelers are given incorrect doses of antibiotics. Improper doses are dangerous when they reduce the normal levels of bacteria in the body, which allows other bacteria to reproduce and cause harm...
...soon-to-be-released guidebook entitled Healthy Travel, recommends inoculations or oral vaccines against the following: poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis, pneumococcal bacteria, influenza and meningococcal bacteria. The new guide also recommends the updating of childhood inoculations against measles, mumps and rubella...