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Diseases in the News

From AIDS to "flesh-eating" bacteria, a primer on diseases making headlines.

Special report: The New World of AIDS
washingtonpost.com

The Hepatitus C virus: Living with a predator
Houston Chronicle Interactive

Heroin linked to fatal "flesh-eating" infection
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

On the trail of hantavirus
Las Vegas Review-Journal

DNA shot may be key to combating ebola
Lubbock Online (Texas)

E. Coli feels at home in the killing zone
Detroit News Online




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Bio-battles
Virus
(Institut Pasteur)
Germs are getting smarter. Through the overuse of antibiotic drugs, bacteria are mutating and learning to outwit the very drugs meant to stop them. In fact, their continued use may be contributing to the development of drug resistant forms of diseases from ear infections to tuberculosis. Bacterial infections once thought to be easily controlled are now showing up with a new vengeance, seemingly invincible to standard treatments. Now scientists are struggling to find a balance in deciding when to use an antibiotic, and when to let a sickness run its course, while at the same time, beefing up their medical arsenals.

 From NewsWorks

Super germs invading the suburbs
The Seattle Times Extra

Stealth bacteria may be teaming up against antibiotics
Philadelphia Inquirer

New strain of Staph bacteria appears in New Jersey
Philadelphia Inquirer

Bacteria resistant to medicine's "silver bullet" shows up in U.S.
New Jersey Online

Has a common germ become unstoppable?
@ugusta (Ga.)

Overuse dulling impact of antibiotics
ActiveDayton.com (Ohio)

Opinion: A day that medicine had dreaded is here
Fayetteville Online (N.C.)

Doctors being taught dangers of overprescribing
The Shawnee News-Star Online (Okla.)

Once thought conquered, tuberculosis on the rebound
washingtonpost.com

Finland fights back by reducing use of antibiotics
@ugusta (Ga.)

Scientists try gene engineering to make new antibiotics
Naples Daily News Online (Fla.)

A weapon in the arsenal
Detroit News Online

Bug recon in the hospital
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

Hospital intensive care unites a bacterial breeding ground
@ugusta (Ga.)

Germ warfare: Manufacturers are busy cleaning up as fear of bacteria spreads
Detroit News Online

Don't wring hands over germs
Lexington Herald-Leader (Ky.)


 From the Web

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/cdc.htm

National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov

Bugs in the news
University of Kansas Dept. of Microbiology

Glossary of microbiology
George Tsute, Ph.D, microbiologist