Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerably richer in vitamins than commercial grape juice of the same vintage." (Bordeaux happens to be synonymous with claret and sauterne.) Another Bordeaux University professor, Jacques Masquelier, got carried away with the results of some sophomoric experiments. He concluded that claret is on a par with penicillin as a germ killer, hinted that it might be better because it slaughters staphylococci, many strains of which are now resistant to penicillin...
...gauze mask worn by generations of doctors and nurses slows down the spray of germs from their breathing, but eventually lets a dangerous proportion get through. Last week two Minneapolis surgeons described a radically new mask that allows only a small fraction of the germ spread and should markedly reduce the number of infections in surgical wounds...
Importance of germ filtration in the operating room has become more acute with the relatively greater prevalence of staphylococci that are resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics. Because of constant exposure, it is doctors and nurses who are most likely to be carriers of these potentially deadly germs even though they show no sign of illness themselves...
Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...
...months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...