Scientists have found Yersinia pestis, the notorious plague-causing bacterium, in the remains of a Bronze Age domestic sheep.

El Dorado County health officials on Tuesday announced that a South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for plague, a ...

A South Lake Tahoe resident tested positive for the plague and is believed to have been bitten by an infected flea while ...

El Dorado County health officials have been notified by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) that a South Lake ...

The FDA and Fromi USA recalled Brie cheese wheels sold in New York because they could be contaminated with Listeria, an ...

There’s hope for an iconic ocean predator that has mostly disappeared from California’s coastlines: the sunflower sea star ...

Three people have died in Italy after eating seemingly harmless snacks. The cause is not a rare virus or an exotic ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

Greek doctor and philosopher Hippocrates once said (loosely translated), "life is short, and art is long." History is ...

The magnetotactic bacterium Magnetococcus marinus lives in marine sediments. Its apparent swimming speed, which is very fast, was previously estimated at 100 μm/s. Spherical in shape, it has two packs ...