| Editorial: Neglect on the Mississippi http://www.startribune.com/... Bacteria Articles Minneapolis Star Tribune - They were right. The report, released last Tuesday, finds a variety of threats to the Mississippi, including fish that are unsafe to eat because of toxic chemicals, fecal bacteria that surge in certain seasons, "turbidity" from suspended sediments ... |
| A doctor's prescription http://www.dailypress.com/n... Bacteria Articles Hampton Roads Daily Press - He's missing part of his right heel as a result of a nearly year-long battle with the stubborn and sometimes deadly methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bacteria, better known as MRSA. But even after recent surgery cut the infection out of his ... |
| Kid Rock arrested http://seattletimes.nwsourc... Bacteria Articles Seattle Times - 1997: For the first time, U.S. inspectors discovered E. coli bacteria in imported Canadian beef, halting shipments of 34,000 pounds. Today's Birthdays Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing , 88. Actor Christopher Lloyd , 69. Actress Annette Funicello ... |
| WHAT'S NEXT -- HEALTH http://www.businessweek.com... Bacteria Articles BusinessWeek - The latest threat to America's health is a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae , that causes ear infections in children as well as pneumonia and meningitis in adults. It was first spotted in Czechoslovakia 20 years ago and ... |
| Plant-based plastics carving larger niche http://www.usatoday.com/tec... Bacteria Articles USA Today - Agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. provides corn feedstock for making Mirel, which requires genetically engineered bacteria to aid in fermentation. The most widely used bioplastic, NatureWorks — a product of a subsidiary of Minnesota ... |
| Broken food chain http://www.azcentral.com/ar... Bacteria Articles AZCentral.com - The company announced the recall 18 days after initial tests showed contamination with the potentially deadly E.coli bacteria. The federal inspector assigned to Topps didn't find the E.coli contamination. That discovery was made after dozens of people ... |
| Contaminated condo site gives up on sugar method http://www.miamiherald.com/... Bacteria Articles Miami Herald - It piped sugar and air underground to feed bacteria that were supposed to convert ammonia to harmless gas as groundwater flowed toward mangroves. A prototype reduced ammonia levels, but according to DERM, never got close to meeting the mark. After some ... |
| MRSA 'deadlier than bioweapons' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/... Bacteria Articles Daily Telegraph - The warning came from Craig Venter, an American scientist currently working on a project which uses DNA building blocks to create the world's first synthetic life form. Critics argue that artificially-created microbes – bacteria which can cause ... |
| Schools step up staph-infection precautions http://www.miamiherald.com/... Bacteria Articles Miami Herald - While county health officials could not confirm that any of the four contracted the much-publicized methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, the district took precautions to ensure the safety of students and staff. ''We're working very ... |
| Makers of emerging plant-based plastics hope to carve larger market ... http://www.iht.com/articles... Bacteria Articles International Herald Tribune - Agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. provides corn feedstock for making Mirel, which requires genetically engineered bacteria to aid in fermentation. The most widely used bioplastic, NatureWorks — a product of a subsidiary of Minnesota ... |