People who drink hot tea or coffee are 50% less likely to carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in their noses.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that medical errors and hospital-acquired infections injure more people each year than airplane travel.

Exophiala species black yeast fungi show remarkable tolerance to heat, high salt concentrations, aggressive detergents, and to both acid and alkaline water.

Cellphones used by hospital patients and their visitors are twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria, as compared to those of healthcare workers

A study on mice shows that granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor significantly reduces symptoms and prevents death after a lethal dose of flu virus.

Dietary fiber may reduce the risks of death from cardiovascular, infectious and respiratory diseases, as well as the risk of death from any cause over a nine-year period.

Species loss in ecosystems such as forests and fields results in increases in pathogens, or disease-causing organisms.

With 90,000-plus Americans dying from hospital-based Infections annually, a study examines the wide variability in compliance of healthcare providers to proper hand hygiene practices.

US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) found disinfectant and pH level violations sufficiently extensive among one in every eight public swimming pools to require immediate closure.

UCLA (US) researchers find that a single infected individual traveling on an airplane can cause multiple outbreaks of influenza as a result of in-flight transmission, particularly in economy class and during long-haul flights.