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Global warming may be worse than predil Ibu
(AP) — Global warming by the end of the cen
tury could be noticeably worse than a U.N. panel
has predicted, according to two new studies.
Last year, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change predicted that aver
age global temperatures could rise
as much as 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit
over the next century as heat-trap
ping gases from industry and other
sources accumulate in the atmos
phere.
The new studies, conducted sep
arately by Swiss and British
researchers, suggest that tempera
tures could rise by as much as an
additional two degrees. Their
reports are published in the current
issue of the journal Nature.
We are more likely
to inuierestittiate
future warming
than overestimate.
Benjamin Preston, a senior research fellow at
the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said
the U.N. report lias been criticized because it did
not attempt to quantify the uncertainty in the
projections.
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strep throat outbreak
Stem cell therai
slows MS
(AP) — For the first time,
doctors have documented a
large-scale U.S. outbreak of
antibiotic-resistant strep throat
— an episode involving at least
46 Pittsburgh schoolchildren.
Until now, antibiotics have
easily killed group A streptococ
cus, the bacteria that cause strep
throat and life-threatening septic
infections, so doctors at
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
were startled by its sudden,
widespread resistance to widely
used erythromycin. The drug is
commonly given to people aller
gic to penicillin and other
patients.
Doctors suspect the strep bac
teria also are becoming resistant
to other popular drugs in the
same antibiotic family, the
macrolides. Their use is growing
because they require only one
dose a day, compared with three
for many other antibiotics.
The jump in resistance began
early last year at a Pittsburgh
private school, where roughly
half the strep throat cases were
found to be untreatable with
erythromycin. All the children
were successfully treated with
other drugs.
“It definitely went from one
kid to another in the school and it
also spilled over into the com
munity.” said lead researcher Dr.
Judith M. Martin of the hospi
tal’s Division of
Immunology and
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don’t know.”
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