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...spreading (TIME, March 18, 1957), Louisiana State University scientists reported hopes of turning the pest to medical advantage. Its venom, they said, kills not only insects but also mites (resistant to most insecticides) and, more surprisingly, contains a potent substance like an antibiotic that kills many bacteria and molds...
...that dangerous and potentially deadly infections with drug-defying strains of bacteria have become a major public-health menace, especially among patients already in hospitals for other reasons (TIME, March 24, Nov. 17), physicians will go to any lengths to trace the source of the trouble. Last week Dr. Harris D. Riley Jr. told a New Orleans meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research how elementary gumshoe work had led disease detectives from Oklahoma City to a small-town hospital that was a hotbed of infection...
...Kean reported that one thing is clear: the most popularly suspected microbes are usually not to blame for the diarrhea that strikes in major tourist centers. His research team based its findings mainly on the experience of travelers to Europe and Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating...
...begin with a small stroke, or it may be caused by a tumor. Though it is seldom seen today, a particularly common tumor among peasants of the Middle Ages, who lived close to their herds, was tuberculoma. This was often caused by the bacilli of bovine tuberculosis-the same bacteria that made the ruff fashionable to hide the swellings of scrofula ("the king's evil"). Since Joan's right-side perception was affected, the tumor would be in the left hemisphere of her brain...
This year, Dr. Lederberg, along with Drs. George Wells Beadle and E. L. Tatum was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in the heredity of bacteria...