St. Patrick's Day to be largely virtual in NYC for 2nd year
NEW YORK — A largely virtual St. Patrick’s Day is planned for New York City on Wednesday, one year after
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California sues major US nursing home operator over ratings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general and local officials sued the nation’s largest senior living home operator Monday, alleging the
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Neanderthal gene can confer protection against severe COVID-19, finds study
Some of the genes in the human genome appear to confer a protective effect against severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
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Causes of food poisoning
Food poisoning is basically food or water borne infections. It may be caused due to bacteria, virus, parasites or toxins
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More than Lyme: Tick study finds multiple agents of tick-borne diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and
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Rwanda closes border with Congo over deadly Ebola outbreak
The 1-year-old daughter of the man who died of Ebola in Congo’s major city of Goma this week has the
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Dissemination of pathogenic bacteria by university student’s cell phones
New research has demonstrated the presence of S. aureus in 40% of the cell phones of students sampled at a
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Prolonged transmission of a resistant bacterial strain in a Northern California hospital
Researchers have used whole genome sequencing (WGS) to demonstrate transmission of a single bacterial strain that possessed a carbapenem-resistance gene
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Researchers: With Cranberries and antibiotic-resistant bacteria fight
Interaction between cranberry and bacteria discovered The large-fruited cranberry is better known under its English name of Cranberry. The relatives
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Dangerous pathogens use this sophisticated machinery to infect hosts
Gastric cancer, Q fever, Legionnaires’ disease, whooping cough — though the infectious bacteria that cause these dangerous diseases are each
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