CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Health Department has given the go-ahead to the Bridgeport Carbon Live Fire to reopen following a July E. coli outbreak. The outbreak sickened more than 60 people. Despite ...

Melinda Pratt’s Monday began like any other: waking up the kids, turning on the TV and making her morning coffee. “I had it on my news channel, and I heard the carrots thing, and I leaned to look at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprising new research shows a small but diverse community of bacteria lives in the placentas of healthy pregnant women, overturning the belief that fetuses grow in a pretty sterile ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative bacterial infections for more than 80 years. These drugs are typically reserved ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a food safety alert Tuesday warning that dozens of people reported eating the Quarter Pounder sandwich at McDonald’s before becoming sick. A ...

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U.S. health officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of bacterial infections that has been linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When bacteria die, their bodies rupture and spill a buffet of nutrients for neighboring microbes. The live cells feast on molecules served by their dead counterparts and in turn become a meal for ...

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Federal health officials concluded their investigation into an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, determining that slivered onions served on the burgers were the likely culprit.