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When rivers in the U.S. and Europe began to billow with evil-looking foam and tap water frothed like lager beer, the blame was quickly pinned on the synthetic detergents in modern cleaning agents. They wash shirts gleaming white and they make dishes shine, but the bacteria that swarm in soil and sewage do not eat them with the same appetite they have for old-fashioned soap. Rejected by the bugs, the detergents sweep through sewage plants and seep out of septic tanks into the ground water. They are not poisonous, but who likes creamy froth on his drinking...
...poking up where the antenna ought to be is a rubber nipple, and inside is tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
...white vaginal discharge, leucorrhea, is sometimes caused by infection with bacteria, and when it is, the familiar wonder drugs will usually cure it. But the most common cause is a tiny parasite, the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis, against which medicine has had no effective defense. Of 50 or more remedies listed in doctors' reference books, all must be used locally. Flagyl (chemical name: metronidazole), synthesized by France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories, is the first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them...
...partially completed February report of sanitation inspector Wilfred B. Krabek says that a concentrated effort has eliminated both bacteria-infested tea and dirty kitchen conditions...
Krabeck's report for last August stated that the tea served in the College was comparable in bacteria count to a one-to-ten dilution of the Charles River. After the report was released the Kirkland pantry began to make their tea with an instant solution, which greatly reduced the contamination. Most of the rest of the kitchens have now started to use this preparation...