Heavy drinkers may be more susceptible to “bad” bacteria. A recent study suggests that people who drink more than the recommended daily...
The hot air hand dryers people use in public bathrooms may not be the best way to clean hands, researchers say. A...
Kitchen sponges are teeming with bacteria, and are even dirtier than toilets, researchers found. A team at Furtwangen University in Germany analyzed...
There are many everday objects dirtier and crawling with more bacteria than a toilet, studies say. These are things that don’t get...
The stuff people leave on their phones when they touch them can reveal their secrets, scientists in California say. By taking swabs of...
Local health authorities in Pueblo and El Paso counties in Colorado are warning people to stay away from raw milk because of...
The five-second rule in food has always been a somewhat dubious idea that people have enthusiastically embraced anyway: any food dropped on the...
Prince George’s Hospital Center shut down its neonatal intensive care unit Tuesday after nasal swabs of three infants showed potentially deadly bacteria,...
Twelve New Hampshire residents have contracted E. coli, which has been linked to ground beef. New Hampshire authorities are still investigating on...
A new species of bacteria has been discovered. What makes this bacteria species unique from others is that it eats polyethylene terephthalate,...
Researchers at the University of Florida discovered a type of deep-sea bacteria that can neutralize high quantities of carbon dioxide in the...
A particularly nasty and sometimes deadly bacteria called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is being carried by one out of fifty people. MRSA has been estimated to contribute...
The equipment used to protect medical professionals may not be doing as good a job as previously believed. About half the time...
Tragedy struck the Oxford County Fair this September, when two young visitors contracted an E. coli infection. One toddler, 20-month-old Colton Guay, passed...
Your house dust is alive and you didn’t even know it. A study published this past week in the Proceedings of the Royal...
When many come across signs that a beach is closed due to contamination, they may think that it is safe to stay...
A potentially deadly flesh-eating bacteria which thrives in warm saltwater has already killed two people in Florida this year, a state health...
The CDC posted an article following the April third news that Blue Bell Creameries had voluntarily suspended operations at their Oklahoma production facility. The first...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning the public that the drug-resistant bacteria strain formally known as Shigella sonnei...