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A county in the US state of Florida that was devastated by Hurricane Ian last month has seen a rise in cases of illness and death caused by meat-eating bacteria. According to officials, Lee County — hit by the Category Four storm on Sept. 28 — has reported 29 cases …

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert to doctors this Wednesday (27) after identifying for the first time in the continental territory of the country a bacterium that is behind a rare and serious. With the investigation of two cases of …

An article published on June 21 in the scientific journal The Lancet Microbe shows that the bacteria that cause typhoid fever are increasingly resistant to antibiotics, in addition to having spread sharply and frequently in some countries in the last 30 years. Typhoid fever is a systemic …

posted on 06/16/2022 06:00 (credit: AS Leybin/Disclosure) Between 1346 and 1353, a bacterium wiped out about 60% of the population of Eurasia, a region that encompasses European and Asian countries. In the following 500 years, a pandemic would cause millions of deaths, without knowing the origin of the so-called Black …