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Allergic response may come along three main routes: 1) from certain natural agents such as bacteria, dust and proteins; 2) from such physical agents as heat and cold; 3) from the emotions. Whatever the cause, the final result-whether it shows up as hives or hay fever-is always expanded capillaries...
Doctors had found no sure weapons against rickettsiae, * the tiny organisms that are smaller than bacteria but larger than most viruses. Aureomycin has been successful against many rickettsial and virus-like diseases: Q-fever, rickettsial pox, parrot fever, typhus fever, lympho-granuloma venereum (a venereal disease...
...Eastern Graduate Research Foundation announced a new campaign against Lactobacillus and a three-year program to test it. The new weapon is a tooth powder containing dibasic ammonium phosphate and urea (a synthetic nitrogen compound). The powder is supposed to break down tooth film, slow down growth of bacteria and neutralize the acid created by Lactobacillus. In preliminary experiments, the foundation claims, it has reduced decay as much...
...problem is not a simple one. For instance, many water creatures, from bacteria to mollusks and fish, have the bad habit of concentrating certain elements, including their radioactive isotopes, in their bodies. They are not damaged by them, but the man who eats them may not fare as well. Fish market inspectors of the future may have to deal with shipments of "hot" clams. So far, the AEC has not recommended Geiger counters for the family refrigerator...
...because poisoning claimed victims only in the five Houses served by the central kitchen, Moore reported, it is likely that the bacteria on the slicer was the source of infection...