Water is an essential resource for human life, yet safe water for domestic use remains scarce, especially for some communities in low- and middle-income countries. Approximately 785 million people ...

After a spill from a massive sewage pipe in the Potomac River, testing revealed dangerously high E. coli levels extending from Montgomery County into Washington, D.C. A week after a massive ...

Grass-fed ground beef that was distributed to six states has been recalled over possible E. coli contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

King County Public Health is investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to a teriyaki restaurant in Bellevue. Five people have fallen sick — four of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. All of them ...

Public health officials have now identified more than 100 patients in an outbreak of E. coli infections related to the Saskatoon Farm restaurant and bakery in Canada. The Alberta Health Services ...

The patient count in an outbreak traced to a farm restaurant in Canada has doubled from a week ago. The patients are infected with E. coli and some are also infected with the parasite Entamoeba ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

The ongoing investigation into the gastrointestinal outbreak linked to the Saskatoon Farm saw several updates over the weekend. On Friday, July 25, Alberta Health Services (AHS) announced that the ...

Salinas-based produce supplier Taylor Fresh Foods is facing lawsuits from nine victims of a November E. coli outbreak that was not disclosed to the public. The outbreak — which killed one person and ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is coming under fire for not publicizing its own report into an E. coli outbreak last year that spread across 15 states and infected 89 people, one of whom died.

The first-of-its-kind in-depth bacterial evolutionary map could pave the way for the development of precision treatments for certain antibiotic-resistant infections, such as urinary tract infections.