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Bookmark or Share- Airlines' Reliance on Group Boarding Could Spread PandemicsOn the airplane, in the middle of cold and flu season, your seatmate is spewing, despite the clutch of tissues in their lap. Your proximity to an infectious person probably leaves you daydreaming (or is it a nightmare?) of pandemics and estimating how likely it is that this seatmate's viral or bacterial effusions will circulate throughout the plane and infect everyone on board.
- If You're Hungry When Sick, It Might Be Less Severe—But ... - WonderHowToIf the more virulent bacteria makes the host so sick that they die, the infection may die out before it passes to someone else. The bacteria has sealed its own reproductive and infective fate. But Salmonella had found a way around that. This didn't come as a surprise to the researchers.
- Fighting Nightmare Bacteria Is Like a Game of Whack-a ... - WonderHowToThe pathogen referred to as a "nightmare bacteria" is quietly adapting and spreading faster than anticipated. If you are not yet familiar with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), it is quickly becoming a household term for severe antibiotic-resistant infections.
- Extreme Cave-Dwelling Bacteria Found to Be Resistant to AntibioticsOne thousand feet under the ground, extremophile microbes that have not seen the light of day for four million years are giving up some fascinating facts to scientists who go the distance.
- Pesticides Used to Kill Zika Mosquitoes May Harm Babies Exposed Before ...Zika is a threat to unborn babies — the virus can cause neurological damage if it infects a mother during pregnancy. But as with many things, our solutions to the problem aren't always all that much better than the problem itself. In the case of Zika, a new study has found that one of the primary chemicals used for aerial spraying against mosquitoes that carry Zika may itself cause impaired ...
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