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Article: Budget Cuts Slow Agencies Fighting New Bacteria Strains Series: THE ABUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS: SEARCHING FOR A NEW CURE Series Number: 2/2
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- The Washington Post
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- June 27, 1995
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The carpets are frayed, much of the lab equipment is old and the
hallways are crowded with refrigerators filled with medical specimens
at Ruth Berkelman's facility in Atlanta.
But it's the best the Centers for Disease Control has been able to
muster so far to fight what some experts call the worst medical
threat since AIDS -- the spread of new strains of bacteria that
resist the antibiotics that cure so many diseases.
In three aging buildings at the center, Berkelman and a staff of
50 medical sleuths work long hours to track the bugs. They seek out
patterns among the microbes that hospitals have encountered; they put
out bulletins to doctors. But, looking at the limitations of
equipment and ...
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Transcript: Center for Disease Control Goes Detective
NPR Morning Edition;
June 3, 1993 ;
700+ words
... ... of mystery illnesses that CDC has tackled. New Mexico ... something they inhaled. Ruth Berkelman, [sp] deputy director ... for Infectious Diseases at CDC is a veteran of many of these investigations. RUTH BERKELMAN, National Center for Infectious ...
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