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...developed defense mechanisms to antibiotics and today they are increasingly resistant. Until recently, these resistant bacteria were found exclusively in the hospital environment, but they have spread to the community - particularly in Georgia, Texas and California. I see children in my office every week with tender, warm boils of pus on their buttocks, legs, arms and even foreheads. Ten years ago these infections were rare and quickly treated with a shot of antibiotics in the office and a short course of oral medicine. But today's children return to the clinic day after day for incision and drainage of their...
...once in Baghdad and again at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to check her lacerated liver and kidney. Sections of the scar still keep opening up in a cascading "buttonhole" effect: one hole opens, then heals; then another opens. One has been left open now so that pus can flow out of her body. "It stinks really bad. It's hard to accept. Why me?" asks Frentz, her emotions fluctuating by the moment between anger and depression. "Some people are just happy to be alive," she says, after working out in the physical-therapy room at Brooke along...
...People might experience a sudden onset of fever, rash, low blood pressure, and pus in the spinal fluid,” said Alfred DeMaria Jr., director of communicable disease control for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...1980s that Tom Lonsdale began making the observations that would eventually take over his life. Heading several veterinary practices in western Sydney, he noticed that the mouths of most of his cat and dog patients were in terrible shape - full of blood, pus and loose teeth. Periodontal disease was not a term he could recall hearing at vet school. He knew that many people, including vets, thought the natural state of cats' and dogs' mouths was repulsive. But something told Lonsdale that what he was seeing needed investigating...
...real is it? Sure, it’s entertaining to see Jessica confess that she assumed “Chicken of the Sea” really was chicken, or that she always thought “platypus” was pronounced “platy-ma-pus.” This is the stuff “Simpsons” jokes are made of. But suppose Jessica were to say something marginally insightful. Suppose Nick were to confess to Jessica that—his emotional abuse notwithstanding—he loved her more than he ever could love another woman...