Just like students in a university classroom, bacteria are adept at learning and responding to new information. Exactly how bacteria respond to environmental forces can be difficult to study when ...

Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...

Children attending the science minicamp at the YMCA of Dodge County on Thursday learned about germs and the importance of hand hygiene from a local expert. Kim Queisser is a registered nurse with ...

When Bridget Pfaff was a student at Evergreen Elementary in Holmen, she undoubtedly learned a few lessons about hand-washing and preventing illness. These days, Pfaff is the clinical manager of ...

One of the clear lessons from a pandemic is that we need safe facilities for health care, work, shopping, learning, worship and entertainment, writes Ken Blaker. Getty Images When President James ...

A half century of living under the tutelage of Pasteur and his successors has taught us that most disease is caused by ” deadly ” bacteria* and has inspired a healthy fear of the teeming microbe world ...