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Scientists at the University of Leeds think we may be able to drown
deadly bacteria in their own paperwork.
Examples I personally can document: a plague of
deadly bacteria in the newborn nursery killing 3 previously healthy newborns, exploding the fetal lungs with too forceful dose of oxygen after birth by inexperienced doctor, crushing the skull during forceps extraction, overdose of adrenalin to newborn by a nurse, slow paging or slow response to call to resuscitate newborn, exploding the uterus (uterine rupture) and / or placental abruption as a result of high IV dose of oxytocin in labor in a low risk women.
Not exact matches
But retailers from large supermarket chains to small grocers are not required to keep eggs
in cold storage, even though research shows it could help stop the spread of potentially
deadly salmonella
bacteria.
DID YOU KNOW: The Centers for Disease Control houses some of the
deadliest viruses and
bacteria known to mankind, and does it all
in a Level 5 laboratory located «somewhere inside the Perimeter.»
Honey is a known source that contains spores of a
bacterium called Clostridium Botulinum which can develop
in a baby's digestive system, causing this rare but potentially
deadly illness.
«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal
bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes
deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus
in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends using hot water to make formula
in order to avoid the risk of infection by rare but
deadly bacteria called Cronobacter that has been found
in powdered formula.
Toilets were designed to effectively separate human waste from human contact,
in order to stop the spread of
deadly bacteria, viruses and parasites found
in human waste.
On the other hand, vultures also appear to have developed a tolerance towards some of the
deadly bacteria — species that would kill other animals actively seem to flourish
in the vulture lower intestine.»
Over the course of 22 days, powderized anthrax — a potentially
deadly bacterium — was mailed to U.S. Senate offices
in Washington, D.C., and to media outlets
in New York and Florida.
Strains that survive this assault, however, can evolve to defend themselves against future attacks, opening the door for
deadlier versions of
bacteria such as methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which killed nearly 19,000 Americans
in 2005 (the last year for which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has comprehensive data).
Nightmare
bacteria — those that are resistant to almost every drug — are particularly
deadly in the elderly and people with chronic illnesses.
Clostridium difficile, a
deadly bacterium spread by physical contact with objects or infected people, thrives
in hospitals, causing 453,000 cases a year and 29,000 deaths
in the United States, according to a 2015 study
in the New England Journal of Medicine.
YOUR own stem cells could help
deadly bacteria hide
in your body — a discovery that could inspire new treatments for tuberculosis.
Now researchers
in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic
bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the
deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them
in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs
in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid
in the wild.
But
in people with weakened immune systems, infections with carbapenem - resistant versions of these
bacteria can be
deadly.
By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published
in JAMA
in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially
deadly infection from the
bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).
Botox is made of botulinum toxin, which is found
in nature as the
deadly product of the food - poisoning
bacteria Clostridiumbotulinum.
The most worrisome and abundant organism Woodcock found
in pillows was Aspergillus fumigatus, an asthma - aggravating
bacterium that can prove
deadly to people with depressed immune systems, such as leukemia and transplant patients.
Companies kill
deadly bacteria and strip out heavy metals
in water using new technologies that range from ultraviolet (UV) light to microbubbles
Now,
in the
deadly arms race between people and
bacteria, the bugs are winning.
They often live peacefully
in our noses, but once Staphylococcus
bacteria get under our skin, watch out for toxic shock, blood poisoning, or
deadly infections.
Streptococcus pyogenes, a spherical
bacteria that typically grows
in long chains, can cause minor infections like impetigo to potentially
deadly diseases like streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
Bacteria found naturally on some bats may prove useful
in controlling the
deadly fungal disease known as white - nose syndrome, which has devastated bat populations throughout eastern North America and continues to spread across the continent.
Among the
deadliest of resistant
bacteria is MRSA, which killed 19,000 Americans
in 2005 alone.
Growers
in Italy's fabled Puglia region try to stop officials from cutting down thousands of trees, intended to slow a
deadly bacterium
An outbreak of anthrax which killed 68 people
in the Russian town of Sverdlovsk
in 1979 was almost certainly caused by a release of the
deadly bacteria from a military research laboratory, pathologists revealed this week.
The samples included two vials of plague
bacteria (Yersinia pestis); two vials of Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the tropical disease melioidosis; three vials of tularemia
bacteria; two vials of botulinum toxin; and a sample of
deadly ricin
in an old collection dating to 1914.
The plague
bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the
deadliest pathogens
in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted
in Europe
in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent
in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged
in China during the late 19th century.
Best known as the cause of the Black Death — the epidemic that devastated Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
in the 14th century — the plague is an aggressive and
deadly disease caused by the
bacterium Yersinia pestis.
And at a clinic
in Lubbock, Texas, physician Randall Wolcott battles
deadly bacteria that communicate and conspire with each other, displaying a complexity
in the microbial world that my 11 - year - old self never imagined.
Anthrax, for example, can be inactivated via established protocols such as boiling for 10 minutes or treating it with certain chemicals, yet federal employees failed to follow any of the approved protocols to kill the
deadly bacteria before sending out anthrax samples
in June, potentially endangering scores of federal employees.
Bacteria are becoming ever
deadlier — thanks
in large part to the resistance many strains have developed to conventional antibiotics.
For most living cells that's a
deadly cocktail, but while some
bacteria in the rock died as they were pounded on by the harsh space environment, a colony of bugs known as OU - 20 (they were sent up by the UK's Open University) resembling the cyanobacteria genus Gloeocapsa survived.
Over on the news side today is an article I put together for Scientific American Online on some mysterious, ubiquitous, and sometimes -
deadly red
bacteria that are probably at this moment living
in your shower grout and contact lens case.
Gram - negative
bacteria have an intrinsically impenetrable outer shell that is a barrier to many otherwise effective antibiotics, and this makes these infections
deadly, particularly
in hospital settings.
Cancers of the breast, prostate, colorectal system, liver and kidney as well as multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells that make antibodies to fight viruses and
bacteria, strike earlier,
deadlier and more often
in some racial and ethnic groups, the National Cancer Institute has shown.
One of the world's
deadliest microbes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the
bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), has tipped off researchers to a potential chink
in its armor.
The
bacteria make nisin as a poisonous defense against other
bacteria, including those that cause two potentially
deadly foodborne illnesses
in people: botulism and listeria.
Case
in point is the ongoing federal effort to encourage hospitals and other providers to protect patients from potentially
deadly infections from antibiotic - resistant
bacteria.
But scientists say it's mostly due to vaccines introduced
in the early 2000s that target up to 23 of the most
deadly forms of the
bacterium that causes pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumonia.
T - Cell Enzyme Uses
Deadly Multipronged Attack on
Bacteria — GEN News Paper: Granzyme B Disrupts Central Metabolism and Protein Synthesis
in Bacteria to Promote an Immune Cell Death Program — Farokh Dotiwala — Cell
7/16/2007 Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence of
Deadly Strep
Bacteria The incidence of serious strep infections has risen dramatically
in the last three decades, and this increase is largely attributed to the spread around the globe of a single strain of strep known as the invasive M1T1 clone.
You may have heard that the sometimes
deadly Salmonella
bacterium becomes stronger
in microgravity.
«Silent - but -
deadly ones, the really smelly guys, are due to fermentation by
bacteria in your colon,» says Patricia Raymond, MD, a Virginia Beach - based gastroenterologist and assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
In fact, «both MRSA, a potentially
deadly staphylococcus
bacteria, and rhinoviruses, the cause of the common cold, have been detected on gym equipment,» says Charles Gerba, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona.
Contaminated water from meat plants run off into farm land which
in turn contaminates plant crops with the
deadly E.coli
bacteria strain O157: H7.
If antibiotics are given indiscriminately, death may result because the antibiotic killed the normal
bacteria in the gut which led to the overgrowth of
deadly bacteria.
It is critical to establish and maintain a firm vaccination schedule
in order to maximize immunity against a host of debilitating and possibly
deadly viruses and
bacteria.