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According to Chong and Yeung, possible article topics include trends in medical research, medical education and student health issues. The first issue will concentrate on the common cold, antibiotic resistant bacteria and gene therapy...
...photographer's teeth had cut the sheath of a tendon, and the doctor told me there were more dangerous bacteria in the mouth of a human than in almost any other animal except a monkey. This didn't surprise me; I had assumed that the mouth of a paparazzo was a cesspool of bacteria...
Sometimes environmental changes help microbes move from animals to humans. Lyme disease, a bacterial infection, was largely confined to deer and wild mice until people began converting farmland into wooded suburbs -- which provided equally good habitats for the animals and the bacteria-infested ticks they carry and also brought them into contact with large numbers of people. The mice that transmit the hantavirus often take refuge in farmers' fields, barns and even homes. Air-conditioning ducts create a perfect breeding ground for Legionnaires' disease bacteria. Irrigation ditches and piles of discarded tires are ideal nesting spots for the Aedes aegypti...
...Unlike bacteria and protozoans, viruses are tough to fight once an infection starts. Most things that will kill a virus will also harm its host cells; thus there are only a few antiviral drugs in existence. Medicine's great weapon against viruses has always been the preventive vaccine. Starting with smallpox in the late 1700s, diseases including rabies, polio, measles and influenza were all tamed by immunization...
Newly emerging viruses, drug-resistant bacteria and a wide variety...