A new study into the hygiene of supermarkets has found that shopping carts are dirtier than the stores bathrooms. Microbiologist Dr Charles Gerba of the University of Arizona conducted research on the handles of 85 carts in four American states. He r...
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Cigarettes Are Bacteria Sticks, Too A study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives finds that cigarettes harbor various species of bacteria, some of which cause disease. Karen Hopkin reports This January, the country Turkey will join a hand...
Around the world, cesarean births are on the rise, and many experts think that's a bad thing. Now, a new study looks at one way that babies delivered by c-section are different. The number of surgical deliveries has been increasing for years. Some ce...
They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. Because scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder have been able to identify individuals ba...
Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are u...
By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 09 August 2006 watch Beach Pollution report Birds are believed to contribute to the pollution at the beach A prominent environmental organization has called for better monitoring of the water quality along many of Ame...
By Paige Kollock Washington, DC 14 February 2006 watch Yogurt and HIV report Yogurt makers like to advertise the health benefits of eating their product. VOA's Paige Kollock reports they may be right...
HEALTH REPORT -August 7, 2002: Bacteria in Food This is the VOA Special English Health Report. An American food company recently recalled about eight-million kilograms of ground beef that is used to m...
Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is abo...
