Tag: bacteria
Microplastics may cause bacteria to develop higher antibiotic resistance
As bacteria become less likely to die from existing antibiotics, it is harder for scientists and doctors to treat infections and protect public health.
Legionnaire’s bacteria found in drinking water at nine reopened schools
Recently, nine schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania found the harmful bacteria in their water.
Flint: 5 years later, and our water is more threatened than...
High levels of lead leached from the old pipes, poisoning a generation of Flint's children, and bacteria responsible for an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease killed more than a dozen residents.
Florida beaches closed due to fecal bacteria in water
Exposure to enterococci could specifically lead to urinary tract infections, diverticulitis, or meningitis.
5 people died from eating lettuce, but Trump’s FDA still won’t...
The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.
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As RFK Jr. shifts his 2024 strategy, he’s bad news for progressives
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers progressives a mishmash of appealing statements, “free market” corporatism and assorted political toxins.
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches
If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?
The Biden interview: the President talks about the Supreme Court, threats to democracy and...
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.
How about a general strike against Dollar General?
The brutal Dollar General approach to managing retail has paid off handsomely—for Dollar General investors and execs.