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...only twelve outbreaks of botulism (46 victims, of whom 14 died) were reported last year. Yet for the Public Health Service's symposium last week on this deadliest form of food poisoning, 300 experts turned up in Cincinnati-eloquent testimony to the severity of the problem. The trouble is, said the University of Michigan's Dr. Lloyd L. Kempe, that ever since safety standards were set in 1922, botulism research has been "shamefully neglected...
Everyone knows what happens when a would-be suicide closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage...
Surprisingly, the doctors found that many hospitals and clinics also use common towels. And some of the hospital bugs were the deadliest of all staphylococci-the strains that are resistant to most forms of penicillin and many other antibiotics. Among the worst places was a maternity ward, where women picked up infections and took them home with their babies...
When the fungus goes no farther than the windpipe and lungs, it may touch off what seems like a bad cold. More severe cases are often mistaken for bronchitis and tuberculosis. But the deadliest form of the disease is inflammation of the brain covering. Cryptococcal meningitis was always fatal until the antifungal drug, amphotericin B, came into use six years ago. Now the death rate is down to about 30% of meningitis victims. But nobody knows exactly how many cases of CN lung disease there are because the vast majority are not diagnosed correctly. New York City records about...
...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...