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...stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis???a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shots for Pneumonia | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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