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...arrival of the real-life thriller The Hot Zone on the best-seller list, plus outbreaks of cholera, tuberculosis, Legionnaire's disease, hantavirus, plague and -- yes -- the flesh-eating version of streptococcus bacteria, have driven home a frightening truth: the war against infectious diseases is nowhere near over. In fact, because of drug-resistant bacteria and newly emerging viruses, medical science actually seems to be losing ground...
...tests have eliminated live bacteria as a possible cause for the illness, Freeman said. Tests are now being performed to determine if the agent was a bacterial toxin...
...bacterial toxin is released from living bacteria. When the food is cooked, the toxin remains, although the bacteria has been killed...
...environmental tests, which have discounted such possible causes as salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria, were administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, S.C., and the Food and Drug Administration in Washington...
Most notable is the fact that the pasta and the eggs at the salad bar have been temporarily removed because tests showed that those two items did in fact contain abnormal amounts of bacteria, although not enough to have caused the epidemic...