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...spoke frequently, are also linked by similar attitudes and ambitions. They share a firm sense of duty. Both, according to someone who knows them, share "the same sort of fundamentalist strain." They are deeply religious without necessarily being orthodox. And they have children of a similar age--though the state-educated Blair boys, Euan and Nicholas, thrashed William and Harry at soccer this summer...
...PLAGUE UPON US A strain of plague in Madagascar is resistant to standard antibiotics, raising fears that other strains--including those found in the U.S. Southwest--could become resistant...
...medical community has reason to be skittish about the disease. The last encephalitis outbreak in Florida occurred in 1990, and during that brief epidemic, 230 people were infected, 11 fatally. The strain of the virus then--as now--was St. Louis encephalitis, a nasty pathogen that at first causes nothing more serious than flulike symptoms but that eventually may cause fever, coma and occasionally death. The New York strain is the rarer but more dangerous Eastern equine encephalitis, a disease that begins with fever, neck stiffness and headaches and may culminate in a swelling of the brain that claims...
...burger paranoia, University of Wisconsin researchers have taken a major step towards the worry-free barbecue. After sifting through E. coli DNA, scientists from the school's Madison campus announced Thursday that they've successfully sequenced and mapped all 4,288 of the organism's genes. Although the decoded strain is different from the deadly E. coli bacterium which caused 25 million pounds of potentially tainted beef to be recalled last month, TIME science correspondent Madeleine Nash says the discovery is nonetheless a major breakthrough. "The fact that this harmless type of E. coli has been decoded is important because...
...increasingly resistant germs. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create new antibiotics that can replace vancomycin as the drug of last recourse. The leading candidate: Synercid, an experimental drug being developed by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. Tests show that it should defeat even vancomycin-resistant staphylococci--at least until a tougher strain of bacteria evolves...