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March 1st - 15th, 2005 Radio Shows
Air Date Program Tues., 3/1 Maggot Therapy: When faced with a life threatening infection doctors use medicinal maggots to treat wounds.
Weds., 3/2 Maggot Therapy From a Patient's Perspective: Maggots are universally repulsive and despised, yet they are offering new hope to patients faced with life-threatening diseases.
Thurs., 3/3 Microbial Astronauts: Future explorers launched into space take plants with them to provide necessary food and oxygen.
Fri., 3/4 Ethnic Food Poisoning: In Guam, a large bat called the Flying Fox had been a delicacy to the Chomorro people; unknowingly the natives were subjecting themselves to a devastating disease.
Mon., 3/7 The Endurance of Leprosy: Leprosy has survived for eighteen centuries, a disease that forced people to be exiled from society, beg for food and wear a bell.
Tues., 3/8 Survival of the Smallest: In the Northeast Atlantic, warm waters are causing Phytoplankton, the basis of all marine life, to die.
Weds., 3/9 HIV and Measles Risk for Babies: Babies are born with some temporary immunity to dangerous diseases like measles, but mothers with HIV have babies with less immune protection.Thurs., 3/10 Pertussis Vaccination: Pertussis, or whooping cough, is making a comeback in the U.S.
Fri., 3/11 Grocery Store Meats Contaminated withMicrobes: Even the finest cuts of meat can have undesirable bacteria, but taking hygiene precautions can be the solution to protecting your health.
Mon., 3/14 Granted Immunity: The immune system is designed to defend you against millions of microbes that would love to invade you body.
Tues., 3/15 The Early Edition: Premature babies face many obstacles at birth, primarily fighting infections, compared to babies born at full term.
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