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GRIFFIN, Ga.--Faced with outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, scientists are developing a better way to protect food: killing deadly bacteria in the bowels of chickens and cattle before the animals even leave the farm...
Currently, chickens are sprayed with chlorine and quick-chilled to retard bacteria. Inspectors touch, sniff and sometimes test animal carcasses for contamination. Another method, in which bacteria are killed with zaps of radiation, has proved too controversial for widespread use in this country...
Doyle found that several types of bacteria inside the cow make their own repellent against E. coli 0157. So he took those bacteria from cattle droppings and tissue, grew them in the lab and fed them to calves in their milk...
...latest strain, an airborne bacterium, is called Multi-Drug Resistant TB. It occurs in TB patients who did not complete courses of antibiotics ? meaning the bacteria learns to tolerate the drugs already in the system. The study found MDR TB 'hot zones' in one-third of the 35 countries surveyed. Alarmingly high incidences were reported in the Baltic states and the Dominican Republic...
SUPER BUG Nearly half the bacteria that cause pneumonia are resistant to penicillin. That's particularly alarming for the elderly, for whom the pneumonia death rate can run as high...