Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bubonic plague comes from a bacterium called yersinia pestis which lives in rats. In a dense population of humans and rats, fleas can transfer the bacteria through their bites between the species...
...disease soon changed to the pneumonic variety, by far the deadlier of the two. The bacteria which carry pneumonic plague can be transmitted through water droplets from the lungs of humans--that is, whenever people sneeze. This can bring the disease to epidemic proportions as the bacteria travel from person to person through the air, as happened in Surat...
...fact, excessive use of antibiotics could cause bacteria to become resistant, according to Dr. Lincoln Chen, professor of international health at the School of Public Health. For example, he says, a strain of malaria developed which was immune to the treatment...
According to Chong and Yeung, possible article topics include trends in medical research, medical education and student health issues. The first issue will concentrate on the common cold, antibiotic resistant bacteria and gene therapy...
...photographer's teeth had cut the sheath of a tendon, and the doctor told me there were more dangerous bacteria in the mouth of a human than in almost any other animal except a monkey. This didn't surprise me; I had assumed that the mouth of a paparazzo was a cesspool of bacteria...