In February 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned people against using EzriCare eye drops because bottles of the product had been linked to drug-resistant bacterial infections causing vision ...
May 11, 2023
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Humans encounter innumerable pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other microbes in their day-to-day activities. While infections from some pathogens can be easily cleared by the innate immune system, others can evade this first ...
May 11, 2023
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The pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) can grow to be more than 20 feet long inside the human intestine, where it attaches to the intestinal wall using the 4 suckers on its scolex, which is only 1 millimeter in diameter. The scolex ...
May 5, 2023
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The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through droplets and small particles, but contaminated surfaces of shipping materials may also contribute to outbreaks. Environmental persistence was thoroughly studied at first, but ...
Apr 24, 2023
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A mysterious illness causing fevers and headaches and leading to rapid development of acute encephalitis (within a couple of weeks of symptom onset), caused an outbreak of nearly 300 reported cases and over 100 fatalities ...
Apr 20, 2023
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Acute gastroenteritis afflicts adults of all ages, causing significant suffering and inflicting significant costs on the American healthcare system. A new study encompassing nearly 40,000 hospital visits from a geographically ...
Mar 15, 2023
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A new study has demonstrated that rats are susceptible to infection with Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 and wild rats in the New York City municipal sewer systems and elsewhere in the city have been exposed ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Humans have long capitalized on the metabolic products of fungi for medical purposes (e.g., penicillin). Psilocybin is a fungal metabolite that has attracted increased attention from media outlets, clinicians and researchers ...
Feb 13, 2023
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The study of viruses is under renewed scrutiny, say more than 150 experts in a new commentary published today in mSphere, mBio and the Journal of Virology, all journals of the American Society for Microbiology
Jan 26, 2023
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People with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have lower bacterial diversity in the intestine than do healthy people, according to a team of Korean investigators. The investigators believe that theirs is the first analysis to ...
Jan 19, 2023
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