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...Louisa May Alcott's era, a diagnosis of scarlet fever could only be made by clinical deduction; the distinctive rash accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and a sore throat. In my office practice, I swab throats daily looking for the dreaded strep bacteria and "rapid strep tests" allow concrete diagnoses to be made in a matter of minutes. Although the National Institute of Health estimates that more than 10 million mild infections caused by strep are diagnosed each year, the serious consequence of untreated strep infections are extremely rare in the U.S. Treatment for strep consists of oral antibiotics...
...Little Women and my thoroughly modern daughters have reminded me of how miraculous the antibiotic era has been. The advent of penicillin was hailed as miraculous and indeed it was. Mickey Mantle would have had his leg and future baseball career amputated if not for penicillin. Thousands of wounded soldiers would not have returned home from World War II. But the battlefields around us have changed. We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must...
...estimated 400,000 in all, including journalists, teachers and even factory-floor managers - may have to make the same declaration. Those who fail to get a clean bill of health from historians at the state archives, known as the Institute of National Remembrance, could be fired. Since the communist era ended, allegations of collaboration with the communist secret police have often been exploited by right-wing, postdissident parties to gain advantage over the the postcommunist left. Some former dissidents, including ex-allies of the Kaczynskis, say the law - expected to be approved by the Polish Senate, which is controlled...
...Estimated age, in years, of a leatherbound Irish book of psalms, written in Latin in medieval times and found in a bog in Ireland by a construction worker 200 Years since a text from that era was last discovered in Ireland, home of great medieval documents like the Book of Kells
...Years since a text from that era was last discovered in Ireland, home of great medieval documents like the Book of Kells...