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Take the journey of the bacterium that caused all the trouble, Vibrio cholerae. From its source in the Ganges. Jones follows its progress to Broad Street and beyond, to the megacities of today's developing world via some illuminating detours. He details, for example, how the human body's adaptability to alcohol, a pretty good option when clean water is hard to find, became a genetic advantage and helped drive urbanization...
While federal testers found traces of the deadly E. coli strain in cow manure near a California spinach farm earlier this month, it is still unclear how the bacterium made its way into the processing plant...
...marketing for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), Harvard’s residential dining halls will be completely spinach-free for now, a result of the recent E. coli outbreak nationwide. As of Sunday, 109 people had fallen ill, and one woman died as a result of the E. coli bacterium that federal officials have traced back to tainted fresh spinach...
...greater risk to patients: the inappropriate use of antibiotics for sore throats that, unlike strep, are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Antibiotics, used incorrectly, may be more harmful than the disease itself. Contrast strep's success story with the saga of staph. Staph is also a microscopic bacterium, one that lives on our skin and in our noses but can cause infections that vary from the inconsequential to severe. It causes superficial skin lesions such as boils and styes; more serious infections such as pneumonia, mastitis, and urinary tract infections. Even more serious infections can dwell deep in the heart...
...take off it did. At first Godin's team sprayed the mold with an alcohol solution of Vitalub, a common ammonium disinfectant. But the fusarium appeared unscathed: scientists later learned that it lived in diabolical symbiosis with a bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens, which was degrading the fungicide. So the restorers added antibiotics to the mix in which they soaked bandages to plaster the lower walls of the cave. Tons of quicklime, which kills fungus but also temporarily raised the cave's ambient temperature, was spread on the floor. Since the worst of the infection has been brought under control, the team...