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Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent health threats of our time. Common bacteria such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus are evolving defenses against the drugs doctors rely on ...

Beetroot juice, which is rich in nitrates, has been linked to changing the community of bacteria living in the mouth. Now, a new study has found that drinking this juice could reduce older adults’ ...

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Two people have died after eating oysters contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria, health officials confirmed, and others have been infected. Both of the fatal cases were traced to Louisiana-harvested ...

Cases of the flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus have risen to 22 in Louisiana, and an additional death linked to Louisiana oysters occurred in a Florida resident, according to the Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – A Louisiana health official reported two more deaths from the flesh-eating vibrio bacteria, part of 14 more infections. It brings the state’s fatality count ...

Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Health officials have confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating bacterium in Martin County. The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) reported the infection as the 20th ...

We’ve heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than ...

More than a dozen Michigan beaches for the second week in a row are under bacteria advisories — or are closed —as Michiganders head into the last week of August and the start of the Labor Day weekend.

Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, is spreading in Gulf and East Coast waters during peak summer months. Louisiana and Florida have reported multiple deaths, while Massachusetts recently ...