Water that comes straight from natural sources, dubbed “raw water,” is gaining popularity. Raw water advocates reject public ...

The journey of pasteurization is one of science's most significant public health triumphs, and few know that it was ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

Germ theory, however, was in ascendance ... including in the air. In the late 1800s Louis Pasteur became fixated on showing how far microbes traveled; he even climbed into the Alps to collect ...

Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness. Pasteur established that consumable liquids like raw water and milk can harbor ...

It was nearly two hundred more years until Louis Pasteur discovered that some of these microbes caused disease. His ‘germ theory’ gave bacteria the poor PR image that endures today. We all remember ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.

According to the zoo, Cabara had to be humanely euthanized Tuesday after suffering from an advanced liver disease. Photo courtesy of the Saint Louis Zoo “The Zoo’s expert Animal Care and the ...

The Princess of Wales has shared a new portrait - taken by her six-year-old son, Prince Louis - ahead of World ... all that which lies beyond the disease." It comes after Kate said in January ...