An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old ...

Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they're in our food, our water, and our bodies. Scientists don't know the full ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...

An E. coli outbreak in Arizona has been linked to the state fair's petting zoo, sickening dozens of children. State health officials did not publicly identify the fair as the source, citing a policy ...

Latvian health officials have completed their investigation into an outbreak and general rise in E. coli which led to almost 80 sick people. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) said ...

Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist with the Iowa DNR, kneels next to a water pump at Big Creek beach in central Iowa. The pump siphons water from the knee-deep zone of the swimming area ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Two law firms ...