(Natural News) Naturally, people try to stay away from disease or keep distance from people who are sick. This gut reaction is called social distance. Social distance is done to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases. There are different levels of social distance as bacteria and viruses pass between people through different routes: The most […]

(Natural News) The genetic evolution of bacteria is occurring at a rapid pace, and aberrations of bacterial DNA are transferring from one species to the next. These genetic deviations, spurred by antibiotics, are now transferring from humans to animals. For the first time ever, researchers have isolated antibiotic-resistant bacteria samples from household pets. Recently, a […]

(Natural News) For the fifth time in recorded history, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency, this time in response to an Ebola outbreak that continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to official data, some 2,500 people have already been infected this time around – and some […]

(Natural News) In 2014, the Ebola outbreak occurred in West Africa where 11,000 people died. Although it was contained for a few years, it has re-emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever with up to a 90 percent death rate. An infected person will show symptoms within two […]

(Natural News) Cholera is a serious case of diarrhea caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which naturally lives in seawater. When it enters the gut, it produces a toxin that poisons a vital cellular transport protein. Most cases of cholera occur because of fecal-contaminated water. It coats the surfaces of shellfish and marine plants. A […]

(Natural News) Health authorities have been warning the public about a new African ebola outbreak that they claim is on the verge of “leaping the border to other countries.” So why, then, are officials in the United States quietly importing — and distributing to communities all throughout America — potentially-infected migrants from these same high-risk areas? […]

(Natural News) A new French study recommended that human populations reduce their interaction with wild animals, especially primates like apes and monkeys. Reducing contact with animals decreases the risk of contracting a zoonotic disease that might develop into an epidemic. One of the perils to human health comes from disease-causing microbes that usually live in animals but are capable of infecting […]

(Natural News) Singapore has confirmed its first case of the rare monkeypox virus on May 9, 2019. The country’s Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement that the virus was brought in by a Nigerian man who may have been infected by bushmeat that he ate at a wedding before he left. The 39-year-old man arrived in Singapore […]

(Natural News) The City of Angels is looking a whole lot more like a Den of Demons these days, as the second-largest city in the United States descends into “complete breakdown,” according to Dr. Drew Pinsky, a longtime L.A. resident and radio personality who gave his take on the current crumbling state of the world’s […]

(Natural News) The conveniences of modern life have contributed to the potentially more widespread transmission of infectious diseases. In 2009, for example, the world awoke to a global outbreak of swine flu, a respiratory disease that is a subtype of the H1N1 virus. With people frequently traveling from one country to another, illnesses they may not even […]