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AQUARIUS: Dive into the Charles, just like me. But try to avoid the bacteria...
FOUL FISH Think farmed fish must be safe? Don't bet on it. Prior to cooking, the popular farmed fish tilapia, also called St. Peter's fish, may harbor strep bacteria on its skin that can cause severe swelling of the hands, fever or complications like meningitis...
HUDSON BEEF You wouldn't feed it to a dog. Bacteria scare shuts plant...
...Bacteria, of course, don't become resistant on their own. Whenever antibiotics are used indiscriminately, mildly resistant bacteria survive and breed with one another, creating increasingly resistant germs. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create new antibiotics that can replace vancomycin as the drug of last recourse. The leading candidate: Synercid, an experimental drug being developed by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. Tests show that it should defeat even vancomycin-resistant staphylococci--at least until a tougher strain of bacteria evolves...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...