You can get eggs and high-quality compost from backyard chickens—but you can also get Salmonella.Urban dwellers are increasingly taking a page from rural communities by keeping backyard chickens. Part ...
According to the National Safety Federation (NSF), pet bowls and toys carry coliform bacteria, including Staph bacteria, yeast, and mold. Additionally, an (unscientific) survey from Petco found that a ...
Add antibiotics to the possible list of culprits responsible for honeybee decline around the world.While it may come as a surprise, antibiotics are commonly mixed into feed used by commercial beekeepe ...
Rabbits have been a persistent problem in Australia for over 150 years. Now the Peel Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC) and Peel-Harvey Biosecurity Group have released a strain of the rabbit haemorrhagic ...
Phuket, the island in Thailand typically associated with paradise and most recently, illegally-run hotels, now has a different problem—a stray cat with the claws of death.Weera Pantip, a 63-year-old m ...
For regions that experienced a boom in mouse populations last year, scientists say 2017 could see a surge in cases of Lyme disease.Caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, ...
Over 6,500 waterfowl—mostly ducks—have died in Canyon County, Idaho, stricken by avian cholera. The outbreak started in February, and before it's over, it may not only be Idaho's largest outbreak, but ...
Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment, but it is also one of the most commonly found heavy metals in wastewater, deposited there by inappropriate disposal and arsenical pesticides, for example.W ...
Yes, bubonic plague—the Black Death that killed millions in the Middle Ages— is still out there. It even infects and kills people in the United States. Without treatment, half the people infected die, ...
A robust appetite for imported foods is leading to increased disease outbreak in the US.Despite the locovore and slow food movements, America's demand for foreign foods is picking up. According to a s ...