Recent Bacteria Articles page 8

Seattle Times - Most water systems also add chlorine because it prevents the growth of bacteria. The EPA insists that water systems test for harmful pathogens, and limits are established for those, but no national standards exist for water treatment, or for levels ...

Courier-Post - Canker and greening bacteria have forced farmers into tedious and expensive procedures to decontaminate workers and find infected trees. Canker, which makes fruit unusable, is spread by the wind and contaminated clothes and equipment. The disease ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - in Hamilton, Mass. Lysol has become the St. George of our time, conquering Nature as represented by viruses, bacteria, mold and mildew. Nature is represented on the label by a soothing pastoral scene, replete with rising sun, woods, water and ...

Arizona Daily Star - We're seeing more people come back to Corian or solid-surface-type material because bacteria don't build up in it," said Burton Kaye, a sales representative and designer for Davis Kitchens.

WKYC - On the verge of cold and flu season comes troubling news about another group of bad bugs that may make winter ills look good. Two new studies out Tuesday suggest resistant strains of bacteria are more common than experts originally thought. It's a ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - People are on high alert to the threat of MRSA after the infection killed a Virginia high school student Monday and news outlets reported a rise in a new strain of the bacteria two days later. The disease usually infects through a skin lesion and is ...

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria that attack the lungs and can be fatal. People with latent tuberculosis do not feel sick and present no symptoms, but are at risk of contracting the full disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune - They were right. The report, released last Tuesday, finds a variety of threats to the Mississippi, including fish that are unsafe to eat because of toxic chemicals, fecal bacteria that surge in certain seasons, "turbidity" from suspended sediments ...

Chicago Tribune - The first boy at Naperville North High School was diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of staph bacteria a month ago; another student followed two weeks later. But Naperville Community Unit School District 203 officials didn't know there were two ...

CNN - Canadian teacher Christopher Paul Neil was the subject of a worldwide lookout posted earlier this month by Interpol, the ... Barack Obama's black... 6 Bacteria that killed Virginia teen... 7 A whodunit on houseplants' death 8 Club slammed over 'light ...