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...fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller, chief pediatrician at New England Medical Center in Boston: "Parents will have to pay more attention to what appears to be a simple cold...
...consequences. Yet there is something relentlessly newspaperish about the implication that the great events of history mostly involve war and politics. World War II inflicted an awful carnage -- at least 35 million dead -- but far more people than that have been kept alive by the invention of penicillin and other antibiotics, not to mention the pesticides that eradicated many epidemic diseases, a scientific revolution that helped double the world's population just since...
Today the pampered pigs travel first-class in their own custom trailer, equipped with fans over each pen and a system that changes the air inside every two minutes. Their 100-gal. on-board water supply is laced with sulfa powder and penicillin to ward off scours, the dread hog diarrhea. Each year the company holds a contest among employees to name the racers. Samples from this year's roster: Hamtastic, Leaping Loin, Chop Sooee, Boared Stiff, Charlie Choplin...
When doctors confronted with chlamydial symptoms mistakenly prescribe penicillin, the usual treatment for gonorrhea, or order the drugs most commonly used for urinary-tract infections, the chlamydial infection rages on. Repeated doses of the antibiotics tetracycline or erythromycin over a period of one week are required to knock...
...report has added new intensity to the debate about antibiotic additives in livestock feed. Since 1977 the Food and Drug Administration has been proposing a ban on the addition to feed of penicillin and tetracycline, two antibiotics widely used to combat human disease. Farmers would be free to substitute antibiotics not commonly used by people. Great Britain limited the addition of some drugs to livestock feed in 1971, and other European Community countries followed in 1973. But heavy lobbying by livestock breeders and pharmaceutical companies, which supplied antibiotics worth $270.9 million to the feed industry in 1983, has blocked...