Wonder drug: streptomycin
(1946)

Streptomycin is an antibiotic used in combination with other drugs to treat tuberculosis, a chronic bacterial infection that causes more deaths worldwide than any other infectious disease. Tuberculosis is spread through the air, usually affecting the lungs, although other organs are sometimes involved. Streptomycin is no longer considered a first-line treatment for TB since the frightening appearance of multi-drug-resistant strains. (Read Super bugs.)

  
   

 

 
City of Houston
Health Fair

Thursday
April 21, 2005
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

George R. Brown
Convention Center
Exhibit Hall A

Wellness Screenings

Goodies & Fun

Door Prizes

Fitness Demonstrations

 
 

 

 

Important note:
If you are enrolled in the medical, dental or supplemental insurance plans and don’t want to make any changes - don’t do anything. Your coverage will remain in effect through April 30, 2006.

Important note: For medical and dental plans, only new enrollees will receive new ID cards for May 1, 2005. Your current ID card has no expiration date. If you need additional or replacement ID cards, order them through the provider, as usual.

 
   

 

 

 

    
     

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