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To: Tharos who wrote (8068)	12/15/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: Tharos	Respond to of 17367

I found this interesting: *** Plea made for antibiotic research WASHINGTON (AP) - Her child in a coma because of a type of meningitis that antibiotics couldn't fight, a mother pleaded with lawmakers Monday to increase research into ways to stop the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant germs. "This nightmare still haunts me every day of my life," said Angela, who traveled from Horn Lake, Miss., to tell senators nine years after her daughter suffered one of the first cases of multidrug-resistant meningitis, the girl, now 10, remains in a vegetative state kept alive by machines. Doctors once predicted antibiotics would vanquish infectious diseases. But germs are evolving ways to overpower antibiotics, a danger fast reaching crisis proportions. See infobeat.com