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Stories about killer bacteria ravaging your child's school gym, locker rooms and nursing homes have made for grabby headlines in recent years. But the truth is that such life-threatening infections with MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, are still largely confined to certain hospital settings, rather than the community at large. And even in the highest-risk health-care environments, according to a new report, the threat of MRSA infection is diminishing...
...trial lawyers seeking the evidence he eventually produced, 10 of the paper’s 12 co-authors redacted their contributions, and the scientific community as a whole discredited the study. As such, it is unreasonable for parents to continue to blame MMR for a disorder that scientists have rather conclusively proved is unrelated. Most unfortunately, the scare perpetuated by believers in the link between autism and the MMR vaccine has led to a sharp decrease in the number of children receiving the vaccine. Currently, every state has a law that mandates vaccination before a child enters public school. States...
...junior resident at Tokyo Metropolitan Toshima Hospital, says that more can be done with medical staff, such as nurses, by increasing their numbers and training them to take on more responsibilities. "A medical professional should be in a position to find a hospital that can do an emergency" treatment, rather than ask ambulance staff - who, she says, are not medical professionals - "to keep making calls in vain." Kondo agrees that allowing trained nurses and paramedics more freedom to act in emergency situations could help. "I'm pretty critical of the fact that doctors have such a monopoly over any kind...
...said there is a danger that China's widespread vaccinations could conceal the virus. "Special attention should be paid to such animals, including those that have been vaccinated," the Xinhua news service quoted him as saying on Feb. 6. "The existing vaccines can only reduce the amount of virus rather than totally inactivating...
...defenders of the Greek city of Ambracia built a complex flamethrower that coughed out smoking chicken feathers. At Themiscrya, another stubborn Greek outpost, Romans tunneling beneath the city contended with not only a charge of wild beasts but also a barrage of hives swarming with bees - a rather direct approach to biological warfare...