The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Milton displaced people and wildlife like alligators. But "it's not a monster movie out there," and there are other reasons ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Your toothbrushes and showerhead are bustling with life, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes, showing that more than 600 different viruses are teeming around you ...

A sealed rock fracture almost 50 feet below ground has remained home to microbes for the last 2 billion years—the oldest life ever discovered in such conditions. The nearly 1-foot sample ...

Whooping cough (also known as Pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory illness that affects only humans. While it can ...

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As cold and flu season rolls around, respiratory illnesses are often top of mind for many of us. Recently, terms like “white ...

Scientists say that their habitat has likely helped them live longer than any other life form on Earth. Scientists have found the oldest living microbes in a two-billion-year-old rock buried almost 50 ...

Healthy vaginas come with bacteria in them. But changes in the balance of the different kinds of bacteria in your vagina can lead to bacterial vaginosis (BV). Please enter your age and the first day ...