Eight people have died from Vibrio vulnificus infections along the Gulf Coast this season, and the bacterium responsible for ...

The United States is going through the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak on record. Thousands of people, mostly in the Midwest, ...

One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier in Cambridge, MD. He put hydrogen peroxide on the tiny cuts, thinking that ...

Federal job cuts are compromising the safety of America's food supply.

The parasite landscape in the u.s. Is rapidly shifting. Tick bites are sending people to the emergency room at the highest ...

"Entire groups of Americans are sick because of the foodborne parasite cyclospora," writes columnist Donna Maurillo. "Here’s ...

While apples are often considered one of the best sources of fiber, a few surprising varieties actually pack even more of ...

Once the decade to be peeped back at from behind the couch, the era is now bathed in a golden light, its iffy stylings and ...

Few conversations are more futile than trying to persuade someone to eat a fish that’s scarred by a virus, parasite, bacteria ...

It’s hard not to feel personally offended when you realize that your favorite movie you loved as a kid had a rather dark ...