An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health officials confirmed on Friday. This incident marks the first death from the ...

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

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

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, with an Enterococci reading 384 times the safety ...

WSOC TV’s Erika Jackson met with Brittany Johnson, an assistant professor in UNC Charlotte’s biological sciences department, ...

"During a required regular sampling, it was determined that an elevated level of E. coli was present in the water at the ...

The NH Department of Environmental Services advises that swimming in contaminated water may cause illness. As of July 11, 3 beaches are under an advisory.

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

Stainless steel is generally considered non-toxic and resistant to bacterial growth, but many popular stainless steel ...

While there is no definitive evidence linking chemicals to increased cancer risk in young people, this is an area of intense ...

Here’s an interesting take on gut health: a recent study from Loyola University Chicago shows how heavy drinking and serious burns mess up the good bacteria in your gut, causing big health problems.