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Infections today require highly individualized treatment, sometimes with multiple therapies, based on a given strain's pattern of antibiotic susceptibility, the condition of the patient, and which organ systems are affected....medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity -- and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.
How penicillin fooled us Ezra Klein 2011
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-- "The strain's flowing through to us": We've seen, here and elsewhere, that the Anti-Matter Earth is affected by events on the positive-matter one.
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Still, a threat remains in the strain's potential to mutate into a truly human disease that health authorities warn could kill tens of millions.
Hong Kong Poultry Ban After Bird Flu Death Jeffrey Ng 2012
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The boys are the ones who have to take care of everything, but you can see that the strain's starting to show.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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European polls indicate that our neighbors on the other side of the great pond are less nervous about the H1N1 strain's severity and far more suspicious towards health officials 'rationale for hyping dire warnings of swine flu's dangers.
Centers of Disease Control: Best Vaccine PR Firm Taxes Can Buy 2009
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The new H1N1 influenza virus that continues to spread through the U.S. has ancestry in a swine flu outbreak that first struck a North Carolina hog farm more than 10 years ago, according to scientists studying the strain's genetic makeup ....
Unless We Stand Up and Demand Safe Meat Production, Next Time We WILL Have a Plague 2009
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Other researchers had discovered the Pseudomonas strain's abilities, but as far as Burd and his science teacher knew, no one had gone this far.
Sustainable: Plastic 2009
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Other researchers had discovered the Pseudomonas strain's abilities, but as far as Burd and his science teacher knew, no one had gone this far.
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Other researchers had discovered the Pseudomonas strain's abilities, but as far as Burd and his science teacher knew, no one had gone this far.
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A threat remains in the strain's potential to mutate into a truly human disease that health authorities warn could kill tens of millions.
Changing Season in Asia Revives Avian Flu Threat to Humans and Birds 2008
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