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...mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely to earth, only to die a day later...
Their concern is well founded, because the effects of cholera can be catastrophic. The disease is caused by comma-shaped bacteria that thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bugs do even better in the human intestine...
...forms of pneumonia are inflammations of the inner surface of the lungs. The classic form, deservedly dreaded before the era of sulfa drugs and antibiotics, is caused by bacteria. The vast majority of these cases can now be cured by drug treatment. More puzzling to specialists in infectious diseases has been the viral variety that attacked the President. This may be caused by any one of scores of different viruses, from those responsible for the common cold and laryngitis to those associated with measles and influenza. Infections provoked by these viruses do not yield to any known drugs, since medication...
...result of the experiment is good news to shipowners. For one thing, none of the nutrient ingredients are expensive. For another, the bacteria do their work so well that tanks would not have to be washed and scraped when ships put in for periodic repairs. This is especially important because the scrubbing is done with high-pressure hoses; the nozzles sometimes develop charges of static electricity that can ignite oil fumes lingering in the tanks. Moreover, Rosenberg believes that his bugs may turn even the ballast water into profit. He figures that after the bacteria have cleaned the tanks...
Best of all, RAG1 cannot harm other life in the ocean. "We took the bacteria from nature," says Gutnick. "They are there and they are fastidious about what they like and do not like." When the bacteria run out of oil, they conveniently die and are themselves eaten by fish...