Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...

Children attending the science minicamp at the YMCA of Dodge County on Thursday learned about germs and the importance of hand hygiene from a local expert. Kim Queisser is a registered nurse with ...

One of the clear lessons from a pandemic is that we need safe facilities for health care, work, shopping, learning, worship and entertainment, writes Ken Blaker. Getty Images When President James ...

When Bridget Pfaff was a student at Evergreen Elementary in Holmen, she undoubtedly learned a few lessons about hand-washing and preventing illness. These days, Pfaff is the clinical manager of ...

Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Dylan Wyatt says “germs” may get a worse reputation than they deserve. “When we talk about germs, we are thinking mostly bacteria and viruses. Especially bacteria, ...

Humans have long had a love-hate relationship with bacteria. While there are bacterial strains that humans cannot live without, such as those that help us digest our food and bolster our immune ...

Your bathing area is one of the germiest parts of your bathroom. Learn where bacteria hide and find out whether showering is more sanitary than soaking. Studies have found that the bathing area in a ...

A bout with a cold or the flu can really take you down. To stay healthy, you need to avoid nasty bugs. But that’s not always easy. Germs are everywhere, and there are plenty of ideas about how to get ...

A half century of living under the tutelage of Pasteur and his successors has taught us that most disease is caused by ” deadly ” bacteria* and has inspired a healthy fear of the teeming microbe world ...