Word: diarrheal
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...make and distribute in the impoverished Third World countries that need them most. That's why Arntzen and others began thinking about using plants instead of needles, creating vaccines that would be easy to grow locally in, say, Vietnam or Bangladesh. He focused on diarrhea, because, says Arntzen, "diarrheal diseases kill at least 2 million people in the world every year, most of them children." And he chose tomatoes because greenhouse-grown tomatoes can't easily pass their altered genes to other crops and because tomato-processing equipment is relatively cheap. It would be easier still just to take whole...
...make matters worse, antimicrobials have been introduced into hand creams, household cleansers, livestock feed. Not long ago, the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine announced plans to withdraw approval of the use of fluoroquinolones in poultry feed. Of particular concern was campylobacter, a common cause of diarrheal disease. And the Minnesota department of public health made headlines when it surveyed poultry on sale in the state's supermarkets and found 88% of the samples were contaminated by campylobacter, 20% of which were fluoroquinolone resistant...
...alone is Molecular Genetics (1983 revenues: $6.9 million). Founded by two University of Minnesota professors five years ago, it has limited entangling alliances by searching for products it can develop by itself. In December it introduced in the U.S. a treatment for scours, an often fatal diarrheal infection in newborn calves. Some 25,000 doses of the substance have already been ordered, and the firm expects that it will generate sales of more than $1 million during the first three months of 1984. Says Company President and Co-Founder Franklin Pass: "This could be the second largest medicine...
...Food and Drug Administration proposed, and the Borden Foods Co. agreed last week that all stocks of the company's powdered-milk product, Starlac, were to be recalled from stores. Reason: FDA microbiologists had found that some samples of Starlac contained salmonella bacteria, which can cause severe diarrheal disease. No cases of salmonellosis have yet been attributed to Starlac, but neither the FDA nor Borden was taking chances. The company also recalled powdered Frosted Shakes, packaged in the Starlac plant...
...Reoviruses were so named in 1959 by Cincinnati's Polio Vaccine Developer Albert B. Sabin from the initials for "respiratory, enteric, orphan," because they are associated with odd sniffling and diarrheal disorders in men and monkeys but cause no known natural disease...