Word: strepping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered, is glutaric aciduria, a metabolic deficiency that usually strikes children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Often triggered by childhood illnesses such as chickenpox or strep throat, it can cause permanent brain injury that can lead to chronic disability, medical complications and even early death...
...Chicago journalist Susan Schwendener, the symptoms were as familiar as the runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you lose weight because your mood's so blue." Schwendener, 33, suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. She started taking Prozac 10 years ago. "The pain," she says, "sort of evaporated over time." By the age of 21, Beth Herwig, now an executive assistant in St. Louis, Mo., tipped the scales at more than 500 lbs. At 29, after years of yo-yo dieting...
FOUL FISH Think farmed fish must be safe? Don't bet on it. Prior to cooking, the popular farmed fish tilapia, also called St. Peter's fish, may harbor strep bacteria on its skin that can cause severe swelling of the hands, fever or complications like meningitis...
...will take several years to develop a shot, especially since Kasper's vaccine fights just one of the five subtypes of Group B strep that exist...
...vaccine may also help growing numbers of adults with immune systems weakened by AIDS or cancer who are suffering from serious strep infections...