The enemy of the people in South Sudan can be seen as he who prioritizes his or her own power and interests over the welfare ...

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

News about an outbreak or mystery virus can trigger fear. Use four questions to assess whether the reports are something to ...

These are viruses that infect bacteria that, at the turn of the 20th ... you had people vigorously denouncing the idea of smallpox inoculation [in which healthy people were exposed to fluids ...

But bad viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi usually cause illnesses ... an estimated 25–50 million people in Europe died from bubonic plague. In the 18th Century, smallpox killed around 60 million ...

Furthermore, as antibiotics generally target pathways essential for bacterial survival, they have a broad spectrum of action but lack specificity, with repercussions on all the bacteria of the ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of ...

NOT OFFICIAL. OKAY, OKAY. FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH, A NEW STRAIN OF BACTERIA IS CAUSING CONCERN AS EVERYONE HEADS BACK OUTDOORS. IT WAS DISCOVERED IN RABBIT TICKS IN A BACKYARD IN MAINE, AND ...

Around 30 percent of people have Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — the primary bacterial culprit behind staphylococcal infections — somewhere on their skin or in their nose. In most cases, these ...