I am a retired public health nurse with 27 years experience in communicable disease surveillance. I hunted down scary diseases to prevent others from getting sick. I worked with dreaded ...

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Lyme disease might be the most common tick-borne illness, but there are several other diseases you should know about this summer.

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Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn’t it everywhere?

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Studies tell the ugly truth about how often you're supposed to be cleaning and replacing your kitchen sponges.

Anthrax, a severe illness most commonly caused by soil-dwelling bacteria, can infect wild animals when they breathe in spores present in contaminated dirt, plants, or water. Park rangers first ...