With springtime bringing about allergies for many, it can be difficult to tell when it's more than just sniffles. Local ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

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Veterinarians put the doomed cat on a full spectrum of antibiotics and ultimately oxygen ... in — the kitten had been suffering from avian flu. A brief investigation by Bayazit’s office ...

Delhi Swine Flu Outbreak: The national capital is battling the worst Swine flu (H1N1) virus outbreak in years. According to the latest data, over 54% of households in the Delhi-NCR region has ...

Pharmacies in England are twice as likely to prescribe antibiotics for a sore throat compared to those in Wales, according to analysis. Researchers suggest adapting the English system to include ...

When someone has a common cold, it is often thought to be the same thing as having a flu. Well, you're wrong but it's not difficult to understand why you could be mistaken. The two illnesses often ...

Dr Tickoo said that not everybody visiting his OPD is being asked to undergo testing but is being prescribed anti-flu medicines. “By the time people come to the OPD, they have had a course of ...

Biofilms work so well, in fact, that they can increase antibiotic resistance hundreds to thousands of times above what’s normal, Zaman said. “Biofilms are pretty nasty to get off because they ...

The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found. Bacteria exposed to these ubiquitous fragments, known as ...

Researchers from Boston University identified another downside to microplastics — bacteria exposed to them can become resistant to several types of antibiotics. gradt – stock.adobe.com ...

In a startling discovery, a team of Boston University researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections.