Surprisingly, an airplane folding table can be the dirtiest item you'll come across while traveling. Travel Math recently ranked the top 5 dirtiest items by collecting 26 samples from five airports and on flights of two American airlines whose names ...
A 16-year-old girl is hospitalized with bubonic plague in Oregon. Doctors believe she became infected after being bitten by an infected flea during a hunting trip. The state Department of Health reported that the teenager's first signs of illness appeared on October 21, five days later...
In amber twenty million years old, scientists have discovered the probable ancestor of microorganisms, to which mankind owes one of the most deadly epidemics in history - the "Black Death" of the XNUMXth century. Then the plague killed more than a third of the population of Europe. A sample of amber was found on the territory of the Dominican ...
New York has managed to suppress an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, which has killed ten people over the past month. The disease was detected in one hundred people. Legionellosis is an acute infectious disease of the lungs. It is also called Legionnaires' disease. It manifests itself in damage to the lungs and nervous system,…
If you have tried fresh milk at least once in your life, pasteurized milk will seem to you a pathetic imitation. Fresh milk is sweeter and tastier, it has a pleasant smell, but it can hardly be called healthy. Although fresh milk reduces the symptoms of hay fever, asthma and eczema ...
26-year-old Florida resident Cason Yeager died after contracting carnivorous bacteria while swimming near the Florida coast. Cason Yeager swam south of Pine Island Beach in the Wicki Wachi River. The guy was previously diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder ...
On some beaches in Florida, the carnivorous bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, dangerous to humans, have appeared. Local residents and visitors are warned about this by the state authorities. Since the beginning of 2015, seven cases of human infection with this bacterium have already been registered. Of these, two people died. Her danger ...