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...Necessarily Safe. As for results, several studies of laboratories that agreed to have their performance checked showed that up to 40% were unsatisfactory in testing for the presence of bacteria, up to 80% in identifying proportions of different blood cells, and up to 18% in such a standard and simple procedure as blood typing. The picture may be still worse in labs that refused to be checked...
...melioidosis, it was first discovered in Southeast Asia in 1911, but it is practically brand-new to Americans. Though some of its symptoms (cough, fever, weight loss, chest pain and spotting on lung X rays) are similar to those of tuberculosis, it is an entirely unrelated illness. Caused by bacteria of the Pseudomonas family, which grow easily in the moist soil of Southeast Asia, melioidosis develops after invasion of the system through open wounds, the mouth or the nose. One helicopter crew chief came down with it apparently as a result of inhaling some of the mud kicked...
...fact is that although some of the lower forms of life, such as bacteria, can survive freezing and thawing, no higher animal can, and certainly not man. Not even a single major human organ can be thus preserved. The National Naval Medical Center, the world's foremost freeze bank, stores only three types of tissue: corneas, skin, and bone-marrow cells. Frozen red blood cells and sperm will also keep for months or years. It is not for want of trying that researchers have failed to preserve whole organs, for a frozen-kidney bank would be invaluable to transplantation...
...Curtis Prout, associate director of the Health Services, said yesterday that negative culture tests for bacteria point to a flu-type virus transmitted through the air. A similar epidemic has been reported by Cambridge Health officials...
Investigation of Central Kitchen's Wednesday night meal by sanitarian Wilfred Krabek failed to turn up any unusual bacteria. City health inspectors are conducting similar tests of the Central Kitchen food...