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Hippie college town Berkeley is sounding the alarm over a frightening outbreak of leptospirosis near a homeless encampment in ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Cash carries dangerous, sometimes life-threatening bacteria as it passes through countless hands and contaminated ...