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State puts routine TB screening on hold

...villages," he said. "Before you know it, they've spread it."Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, is a bacterial infection that develops in the lungs and spreads through coughs and sneezes from infected people. Left untreated, it can...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-03-14/state-puts-routine-tb-screening-hold
State
FDA shouldn't order costly GMO labels just to satisfy scientific illiterates

...varieties happen in nature as well - within and across species - without human intervention.Medical treatment of bacterial infections with antibiotics, by contrast, directly interferes with nature. Do opponents of genetically modified products...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-06-29
Opinion
You're not entirely what you think you are!

...Surprisingly, viruses may offer a way to treat some bacterial infections. Many, perhaps most, viruses attack bacteria...treatments with phages might help control some bacterial infections. Of course, the bacteria can mutate, and some...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-09-28/youre-not-entirely-what-you-think-yo
Outdoors
Alaskans attend ceremony for Native American saint

...a young Bellingham, Wash., Lummi Nation boy named Jake Finkbonner was cured of a devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection in 2006 after his parents prayed to Kateri.The now 12-year-old Finkbonner and his family attended the canonization...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-11-04/alaskans-attend-ceremony-native-ame
Neighbors
State faces bioterrorism questions

...a shortage in Alaska, she said. Antibiotics are used to treat anthrax, bubonic plague and tularemia - three bacterial infections associated with germ warfare, Funk said. The drug is not effective against two other potential threats: smallpox...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100501/sta_bioterrorism.shtml
News
Juneau artist found his peace in Brazil

...He had found a place in his life where he was really content." Adkins, 58, died Sept. 25 in Brazil from a bacterial infection that attacked his throat and immune system. He's survived by his wife; his mother; and two sisters, Cecilia...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102405/loc_20051024003.shtml
News
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...Iditarod teams died Friday, one of them from a bacterial infection three days after it had been dropped by a musher...tired and wasn't eating well. The dog died of a bacterial infection of the chest cavity lining, according to necropsy...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031101/Spo_Swingley.shtml
Chlamydia is a common infection

...people assume they are not exposed when in fact they are. Sound off on the important issues at "Klumideeah" is a bacterial infection of the eye, lungs, genital tract that is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100307/nei_20071003002.shtml
Neighbors
Fairbanks swine flu victim likely had secondary infection

...overwhelmed by a secondary bacterial infection, the state epidemiologist...were also a big danger. A bacterial infection on top of the flu virus played...known about the secondary bacterial infection, the outcome might have been...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091009/sta_491613273.shtml
Cold, flu season a reason to go running

...I know. I want soup and I'll add some garlic (it has an antibiotic effect and can help combat secondary bacterial infections), maybe some ginger too (can help nausea, fever, pain) and some saltine crackers (just because, mentally...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010810/out_544300447.shtml
Outdoors

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