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...several decades, New Yorker Cartoonist William Steig, 78, has devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains...
...been four cases of infection with antibiotic-resistant S. newport in the state in three months. Interviews established that the victims lived on farms six miles apart and that they got their beef from the same nearby feed lot, which routinely added chlortetracycline to the animals' feed. The CDC traced the path of the meat shipments from the feed lot to eight supermarkets patronized by the ten Minnesota victims. All had reported eating hamburgers within a week of the time they became...
Indeed, the conclusions of the CDC report are "inferential," concedes Epidemiologist Reuel Stallones of the University of Texas, who contributed to a 1980 report from the National Academy of Sciences that found the human health hazards of antibiotic feeds "neither proven nor dis-proven." But, he adds, "this is the best evidence I've seen up to this time that human illness is somehow linked to the use of antibiotics in animals for growth promotion. This study draws the net much tighter around the issue, but it is still a net, not a rope.'' -By Anastasia Toufexis...
Holmberg, who married Maureen Shields, a pediatric nurse, in 1981, has been in the field for three of his eleven months so far with CDC. In Atlanta he spends much of his time analyzing the data he has collected. Holmberg frets occasionally about becoming a workaholic, but clearly loves his job. "The medical sleuthing-that's the most fun. The clues start to fall into place step by step as you go through it." The disease detective's zeal is admired by his superiors. "His is the old hard-work ethic," says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Holmberg...
Holmberg has just signed on for another year at CDC. "I'll probably stay in public health one way or another," he says. "I'm going to spend a significant portion of my career in backwoods, dirty places trying to stop diseases that I don't like. That includes all of them...