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...Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess to clean...
...form of strep bacteria usually found in newborns and pregnant women is pushing further into the general population; in Atlanta, for example, the incidence of so-called Group B strep has doubled in six years. It usually strikes people already suffering from other illnesses, and it can be deadly...
...coats of cows, sheep and dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans and Chlamydia pneumoniae, both of which can cause fatal lung inflammations. But topping the list of possible culprits is a virus...
...disease, toxic-shock syndrome and AIDS over the past two decades. Modern life is constantly creating new opportunities for microbes, warns author and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Richard Krause of the National Institutes of Health. Legionnaires', he notes, developed because air-conditioning ducts created a new breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing on the possibility that the illness might somehow be linked to inhaling a virus present in rodent droppings, though whether...
...scientists say, is that the hormone can lead to udder infections that not only are painful to cows but also could have consequences for those who drink the milk. Farmers treat the animals with powerful antibiotics that find their way into milk. Humans who drink the stuff can harbor bacteria that develop resistance to those antibiotics, and thus run the risk of developing infections that are hard to treat...