Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...countries with poor sanitation] be very careful of water and things washed in water," Rosenthal says, referring to foreign countries where the water supply contains levels and types of bacteria different than...
...These bacteria can often make unaccustomed Americans sick, causing diarrhea and other ailments...
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...