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...doctors would lend an ear to anti-vaccal Dr. Soper, but milk bacteriologists agree with him about the bacteria. Among those present...
Pasteurization will not satisfy Dr. Soper. If it is careless, tubercle bacilli survive (TIME, Jan. 4). He gives instances when even careful pasteurization (about 144° F. for 30 minutes) did not kill all harmful bacteria. Among those left alive: streptococci involved in some poliomyelitis epidemics, spore-forming organisms (chiefly intestinal bacteria of cattle, capable of causing diarrhea in infants), acidophilus and pneumococci-like organisms...
...Agriculture bulletin: "Milk and cheese are of prime importance . . . because of their exceptional food value. No other single kind of food has as much to offer to good nutrition. . . . The diet of every family should include . . . milk and milk products." Most people believe milk to be good food, tolerate bacteria in it in reasonable quantities as part of each man's "peck of dirt before he dies," give milk credit for making U.S. Irishmen even taller than their Erin brothers and U.S. Japanese inches taller than their forebears...
When a sulfa drug comes along, some ordinarily susceptible bacteria do not just lie down and take it. Some of them develop such resistance that they can even multiply in the presence of the enemy. Up to now, laboratory workers have been unable to prove how a resistant strain differs from a susceptible one of the same species. They look alike, grow alike, form the same kind of colonies...
...Army is on the watch. At a California ordnance depot, three soldiers died almost before their trouble could be diagnosed. The doctors were waiting for the next 17 cases with sulfadiazine, saved them all. They made throat cultures of men in the barracks involved, dosed all who harbored the bacteria. Said a medical officer: "If you catch it early, it's a bad cold...