Word: mycoplasmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Outbreaks of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacteria that causes a particularly virulent respiratory illness, have struck New York, Ohio and Texas. The cold- like bug could spread rapidly as winter approaches...
...dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans and Chlamydia pneumoniae, both of which can cause fatal lung inflammations. But topping the list of possible culprits is a virus...
...accountant's son who excelled in Greek and Latin in college during the German occupation, Montagnier is no stranger to adversity. He faced it again in 1990, when he supported a controversial theory that mycoplasma, a bacterium-like organism, is the trigger that turns a slow-growing population of AIDS viruses into mass killers. According to Montagnier, the explosion of sexual activity in the U.S. during the 1970s fostered the spread of a hardy, drug-resistant strain of mycoplasma. HIV, meanwhile, lay dormant in Africa. The AIDS epidemic began, Montagnier speculates, when the two microbes got together, perhaps in Haiti...