The Latest Breaking News from Bacteria

The men’s Olympic triathlon has been postponed over concerns about water quality in Paris’ Seine River, where the swimming portion of the race was supposed to take place

With 78 confirmed cases in Melbourne outbreak, health officials say investigations have identified the likely source

People with head and neck cancers are said to have better outcomes if fusobacterium is found with their cancer

Researchers have examined the impact a common bacteria can have on head and neck cancers.

Researchers said that they were “brutally surprised” to find that Fusobacterium appeared to have the ability to kill head and neck cancers

Scientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating the need for males.

Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.

A new study from the National Institutes of Health shows a jump in both hospital-acquired infections and resistance to the antibiotics used to treat them. The findings are based on data gathered at 120 U.S. hospitals from January 2018 to December 2022, a five-year period that included the COVID-19 pandemic.…

We often hear about the importance of the human microbiome – the vast collection of bacteria and fungi that live on and inside us – when it comes to our health. But there’s another, equally important part of this microbial community that remains far less known: the virome.