Doctor, my whole family has this giddy feeling ...

Article Abstract:

Experts are now starting to believe that a virus could be responsible for outbreaks of vertigo among particular groups of people. Until recently, such outbreaks had generally been attributed to hysteria or imagination, with vertigo in one person causing others to believe that they were experiencing the same symptoms. Recent research into a vertigo epidemic in Wyoming indicated that it was probably caused by an enterovirus.

Care and treatment, Vertigo

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Nothing is too tough for these bugs to bite

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Eberhard Bock of the Hamburg Institute for General Botany and Microbiology discovered that nitrifying bacteria contribute to the corrosion of buildings and statues. These microbes fix nitrogen in soil and water. They also work inside stone, converting annomia to nitrous acid or turning nitrous acid into nitric acid. Studies of the Cologne Dom church and Regensburg Dom revealed Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter.

Germany, Buildings and facilities, Buildings, Monuments, Maintenance and repair, Microbiological research, Corrosion and anti-corrosives, Corrosion, Bacteria, Nitrifying, Nitrobacteraceae

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Microbe of the month: equine morbillivirus

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Scientists have identified a microbe which they have termed equine morbillivirus (EM) as being responsible for the deaths of several horses and a horse trainer in Australia in 1994. EM is causing particular concern because it can attack more than one species and is clearly very virulent. There is still little understanding about where it came from and whether it may return.

Health aspects, Horses, Measles virus

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