Word: infective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disease produces high fever, delirium, and painfully swollen lymph glands form dark discolorations called buboes; death follows massive internal bleeding. People infected with the most virulent, pneumonic form can infect others by sneezing. The villain is a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, which thrives in rats, the fleas that bite them, and humans exposed to either pest. Destroying fleas and keeping rats from migrating curb the plague, but Viet Nam's fleas have grown more resistant to available insecticides; and, for example, there are only four quarantine inspectors to see that busy harbor ships keep a constant guard against invading rats...
...coli and 92% of Proteus vulgaris resisted at least one important drug. Equally sobering, researchers note that antibiotics are now routinely put in livestock feed to suppress bacteria and stimulate the animals' growth. This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines...
Before they can effectively combat the bacteria that may infect a patient, threaten a swiftly spreading epidemic, or contaminate a municipal water sup ply, doctors and scientists need quick and positive identification of the invading organisms. But traditional laboratory tests that single out and classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu...
...students who rejected the idea of non-resident advisors thought the "undergraduate perspective" might be more of a detriment than a benefit. They feared that anyone still immersed in the undergraduate world might inadventently infect their advisees with personal prejudices about courses and fields of concentration...
...youth feel a sense of utter pessimism, a rejection of any kind of political commitment," complains one Communist elder. "They doubt the meaning of positive effort. Their only real interest is sex." Youthful Yugoslav Author Mihajlo Mihajlov recently wrote President Tito that any fears that reading Western literature could "infect" Mihajlov with a "foreign ideology" are unfounded. His proof: "I have been reading Communist literature since childhood, and I still fail to find any sympathy for Communism...