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07/29/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Is this the next superbug? Understanding drug-resistant candida and why antibiotics don’t work

Move over, superbug: The next drug-resistant pathogen could be a fungus that already calls our body home. In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases last year, researchers noted an uptick in reports of invasive Candida infections that are resistant to antifungal agents. The article, which discussed the current trends in multidrug resistance, revealed that cases of […]

02/11/2018 / By David Williams

Mosquitoes infected with natural bacteria to prevent reproduction will be released in Miami, in a non-GM effort to reduce mosquito populations

It might seem like scientists and other experts have all tried pretty much everything they can to eradicate pesky mosquitoes from the planet. But now, to fight Zika and other kinds of viruses carried by them, a new team of researchers based out of South Miami has decided to simply go after their progeny. According to […]

03/24/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Pandemic? Bird flu found at multiple poultry farms in Alabama

Reuters reports that in the first week of March 2017, a southern Tennessee farm growing chickens for Tyson Foods, Inc. had to euthanize 73,500 broilers because those birds had the unfortunate distinction of being the “first confirmed case of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza (HPAI)” in U.S. commercial poultry farming. As a precaution, at that time 30 additional farms were quarantined within a […]

03/20/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Pet clothing said to be responsible for rise in canine skin problems

Many pet owners feel like their dogs are people too, which in part explains why the phenomenon of dressing our pets up has become increasingly popular over the years. In 2015, an astounding $350 million was spent on Halloween pet costumes alone. The pet apparel industry has become so huge, that even high-end designers like Ralph […]

03/16/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Mumps outbreaks reported among vaccinated children … Is the vaccine causing the outbreaks?

Mumps outbreaks have been on the rise, but not among those who are unvaccinated. In what appears to be a rather ironic twist, it seems that the majority of people affected by the disease are those who have received inoculations to “protect” them from mumps. In 2016, more than 5,000 cases of mumps were reported, […]

03/14/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Bioterrorism expert mysteriously killed in St. Louis bicycle accident

On Friday, February 24, university professor and bioterrorism expert, Robert Mark Buller, was mysteriously killed while riding his bike in the 10600 block of Riverview Drive. The 67-year-old professor taught molecular microbiology and immunology at St. Louis University, and was described in the university’s obituary as “one of the nation’s foremost poxvirus researchers.” The obituary […]

02/27/2017 / By David Gutierrez

Cervical cancer is killing African American women at twice the previously reported rate in spite of the HPV vaccine

Recent studies supposedly proving the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine manipulated data to make the cervical cancer death rate among black women look much lower than it actually is, according to a study recently published in the journal Cancer. Vaccine supporters had pointed to the studies as evidence that cervical cancer rates have been falling […]

02/11/2017 / By Vicki Batts

6,000 California workers contaminated with toxic heavy metal lead

Do you have too much lead in your blood? If you live and work in California, that may just be the case. Over 6,000 Californian workers from the manufacturing and construction industries have alarmingly high levels of lead in their blood. A new report from the state’s public health agency has even indicated that the […]

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