Customers of Stop & Shop supermarkets across Connecticut are reporting food and merchandise shortages across the state as officials with the Massachusetts-based grocery chain struggle to fix the ...

University of Missouri researchers discovered that the bubonic plague can sometimes be transmitted to a flea's offspring. Deborah Anderson and Brenda Beernsten, both professors in veterinarian ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...

The Black Death, which was caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia pestis, struck Europe in the mid-14th century. Scotland’s ...

Toothpaste is meant to keep bacteria at bay, but an inspection from the Food and Drug Administration found that water contaminated with dangerous bacteria was used to manufacture batches of ...

Personal care brand Tom's of Maine received a warning from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month after the agency found disease-causing bacteria and mold-like and powdery substances in ...

Donald W. Schaffner, a professor of food and science at Rutgers University, said in an email that the bacteria found might cause illness, particularly for those who are immunocompromised.

In the letter, the FDA also noted Tom's Simply White Clean Mint toothpaste was produced with water containing the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a germ that can cause drug-resistant infections ...

An inspection this year of a Tom’s of Maine’s facility in Sanford, Maine, turned up several violations, including bacteria in water used to make toothpaste, bacterial growth in another type of ...

coli outbreaks are making headlines — and prompting questions about how to stay safe from the bacteria that can cause sickness. The carrot recall was issued by California grower Grimmway Farms ...

Historically Bubonic Plague was a huge burden on the health of the population but can now be readily ... or from latent organisms left in the environment from rat saliva or excrement. Listeria and ...