On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Eleven people have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, and four of them died, ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Nearly three dozen beaches in Massachusetts are closed to swimmers ahead of the weekend due to high bacteria levels.

A Minnesota meat processing plant is voluntarily recalling multiple products that may be contaminated with bacteria that can ...

As hot temperatures hit Los Angeles this week and residents flock to the coast to cool off, the LA County Health Department ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) is reporting that four people in Florida have died from a flesh eating so far in 2025 ...

“You have germs on your hands then you touch the water bottle that would be an example of where you could get more of those ...