The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever.

The horrors of Covid-19 pandemic are still fresh in our minds, even though a few years have passed ever since. One lesson which the world has learnt from the 2020-2021 pandemic is that precaution is ...

On Monday, director general of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Chan made a particular point of ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a Louisiana resident had been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza — also known as “bird ...

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