Zap*Germs

Updates on the battle between Man and germs: antibiotic-resistant superbugs & other bacteria, potential pandemics, emerging infectious diseases, vaccination, inflammation, probiotics, food safety & travelers' health.

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November 22, 2008

Vaccines to Fight Rotavirus Diarrhea May Be Approved For Global Use

Vaccines against rotavirus, the main cause of severe diarrhea in preschoolers, may win recommendation for global use by the World Health Org...

August 25, 2006

Community-acquired MRSA Now Widespread

In the past couple of years, CA-MRSA has fully infiltrated itself into the US community, which I remarked on back in April 2005. As a new M...

July 08, 2006

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Attack Baltimore Man

By the time [Richard] Herskovitz got to the emergency room at Carroll Hospital Center [one day after dropping a computer on his foot], the s...

May 31, 2006

Alien Microbes In Crimson Rain?

Apparently "50 tons of red gunk...rained on India in 2001. It's possible that the stuff contains critters from outer space," s...

May 14, 2006

Morgellons Disease: Painful Infection Baffles Doctors

Like something out of "Aliens," excruciatingly painful skin lesions extrude a mysterious, fibrous material -- in different colors....

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