Bacterial disease sickens hundreds of California sea lions
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Hundreds of California sea lions have been sickened by a bacterial disease that also can infect humans, pets and other mammals, researchers said Friday.
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Bacteria in dental plaque can cause hospital-acquired pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents, according to a report in the medical journal Chest.
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By TERENCE CHEA RIO VISTA, Calif. - Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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Thousands of croakers have washed ashore at beaches in recent days, the latest mass deaths of the popular sport and food fish.
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It took some mighty fine nets, but scientists who spent two years trawling the world's oceans for bacteria and viruses have completed the most thorough census ever of marine microbial life, revealing an astonishingly diverse and bizarre microscopic menagerie.
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Up to 60 protected gray seals have been killed off the west coast of Ireland in what a wildlife group described as slaughter. The Irish Seal Sanctuary said the seals -- most of them pups
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ATLANTA Oct. 1, 2004 - Emory University officials sent warning letters to more than 500 surgery patients at the school&#39;s medical center after a brain surgery patient tested positive for a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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An infection sweeping through herds of Italian water buffalo is threatening mozzarella production.
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At Least 24 People Have Become Infected With E. Coli in NC; Many of Them Visited Petting Zoo. RALEIGH, NC Nov 4, 2004 - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria, and
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MONTEREY, Calf.Â -- An invasive water mold has killed thousands of coastal oaks on California's Central Coast and will soon wipe out an ancient species, the tan oak, from Monterey County.
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Nearly two dozen crossbred lions are slowly dying in northern India from a mysterious disease afflicting the hybrid offspring of Asiatic and African cats paired in a discontinued experimental program.
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As many as 75,000 people may have drunk water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
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The West Nile virus has taken a firm hold in California, killing 14 people this summer and infecting almost 500, health officials said on Friday.
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CHEMICALS in a Victorian seaweed could shut down bacteria that cause golden staph and cholera. The chemicals in seaweed Delisea pulchra, known as furanones, do not kill the bacteria but shut off the ability for the bacteria to send signals to each other.
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State wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of dozens of sea birds being found along Florida's east coast.
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Some of the nastiest bacteria that thrive in the human gut and make us sick may have evolved from hardy ancestors living deep under the sea, a group of Japanese scientists found.
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A waterborne disease spread through animal urine has killed nine people and sickened more than 1,600 in storm-stricken Nicaragua, health officials said Monday.