Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only treatment currently available for Lyme disease, which is caused by a spirochete, a type of bacteria, is antibiotics, typically amoxicillin. Telford's effort to bring the Lyme disease vaccine trial to Nantucket began several years ago with a phone call from Yale University researchers who told him: "We have a vaccine which works...
...Erol Fikrig, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale, had isolated and duplicated a protein present on the surface of the bacteria, carried by deer ticks, which is thought to cause the disease...
Possessing that protein made possible the creation of a vaccine, which when injected into laboratory mice, protected 95 percent of the animals against Lyme disease infection. The body's immune system should react to the protein as it would the bacteria, but without any of the harmful effects of the disease. The vaccination allows the body to build up an arsenal enabling it to quickly defeat the real bacteria should it later attack the body...
...Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess to clean...
...form of strep bacteria usually found in newborns and pregnant women is pushing further into the general population; in Atlanta, for example, the incidence of so-called Group B strep has doubled in six years. It usually strikes people already suffering from other illnesses, and it can be deadly...