At least 10 Americans have died from awhooping cough in the past year - marking the highest number of fatalities since 2017, ...

A child in Spokane County died of whooping cough in November, marking the first fatality from the disease in Washington in ...

Here are ways to help our feathered friends during bird flu season, and help slow spread of salmonella at feeders, bird baths and poultry enclosures.

Scientists at Stanford are developing a painless, topical vaccine using a common skin bacterium to trigger immunity.

Pruning roses can strike fear in the hearts of most novice (and many experienced) gardeners. One of the most frequently asked ...

Even a clean and healthy-looking bird can carry salmonella bacteria, the CDC said. The number of humans getting salmonella from birds is rising, at least in part because keeping backyard poultry ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes ...

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis or DTP, are serious diseases caused by bacteria. DTP vaccine is a blend of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids adsorbed with pertussis vaccine for intramuscular ...

Different types of antibodies are produced by your immune system. These five antibodies help fight disease by detecting viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms) and ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...