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Refillable water bottles contain more bacteria than a toilet seat doctor warns

Brits are being urged to regularly wash their refillable bottles to avoid harmful bacteria

Wales Online

You have to clean this first if you want a truly hygienic kitchen – professional cleaners warn

Professional cleaners explain what to clean first in a kitchen to keep your workspace hygienic and your food safe, as well as how to clean your kitchen properly

Homes & Gardens

Grim reason you always wash water bottle as doctor warns of flu-like symptoms

While using a reusable water bottle has so many benefits, including for the environment and your own health, not washing it regularly can actually harm you.

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Here’s what happens if you don’t wash your water bottle often enough

Every time you drink you’re transferring bacteria from your mouth, which can then multiply in the container

The Independent UK

Five ways to know if a river is polluted – and whether it's safe to go in the water

England’s rivers are in a mess. Just 14% are in good ecological condition – and that’s just the ones that are regularly assessed.

The Conversation

Internet of microbiota: could synthetic probiotics help prevent our natural bacteria from going astray?

Animals use chemical substances called pheromones to communicate with each other and attract mates, mark territory, and signal danger. Plants release volatile organic compounds to attract pollinators and repel predators. Communication using molecules, known as “molecular communication”, is also useful to humans, albeit in a way that goes unnoticed by…

The Conversation

Hope for endometriosis suffers as possible cure for excruciating condition discovered

Scientists in Japan think they may have hit a breakthrough in finding a cause for endometriosis - a painful and debilitating condition suffered by millions of women

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UK supermarket supplier’s chickens given antibiotics critical for humans

Investigation of meat sourced by Polish firm that sells frozen poultry to Lidl, Asda and Iceland raises superbug concerns

The Guardian - UK

AI could change the future of yogurt — and turn Danone around

Making the yogurt of the future requires a cast of 21st-century helpers: machine learning, gut science and even a mysterious artificial stomach.

Tribune News Service

Raw milk: the ultimate dairy product is back – but is it safe?

Tom Parker Bowles has spoken out in favour of unpasteurised milk, along with much of TikTok. The only problem is all that bacteria ...

The Guardian - UK

How many children are there in the world? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK

Symptoms of silent killer that should never be ignored - from bad breath to nausea

More than 160,000 deaths each year - that's an average of 460 deaths each day - are caused by heart and circulatory diseases, but lifestyle changes can help ward these off

Daily Mirror

Infection With This Bacteria Could Trigger the Development of Endometriosis

Japanese Researches found that a strain of Fusobacterium may be linked to endometriosis.

Inverse

Endometriosis may be caused by a common gut bacteria, small study suggests

New research offers a possible link between endometriosis and a common bacteria that can be treated with antibiotics.

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The Conversation

South Africa is famous for its biodiversity: a new network will store and manage its plant and animal samples

South Africa has created a network of facilities to store hundreds of thousands of samples of biological material from plants, animals, bacteria and fungi. The samples are currently held in biobanks in the country. The aim is twofold: to ensure researchers have access to all available samples, and to establish…

Dublin Live

Swimming ban in place for two popular Dublin beaches due to high bacteria levels

Fingal County Council says the two beaches remain open, but bathers are advised to avoid swimming in the water due to potentially harmful bacteria

Daily Mirror

'I burst out laughing at my sister's baby name - it sounds like a bacteria'

The woman left her sister fuming when she burst out laughing after being told the name she's planning on giving her baby - and was told she'd ruined her baby shower

Wales Online

Health expert's five simple steps to improve gut health and why it is the secret to weight loss

The key thing is to increase the number of plant based foods you eat

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Inverse

Scientists Finally Confirm A Long-Held Belief About What Triggers Photosynthesis

A single photon is enough to catalyze photosynthesis in bacteria, according to a study published in Nature, which likely applies to plants as well.

LiveScience

Scientists have finally discovered how photosynthesis starts — by setting it off with a single photon

For the first time, researchers have observed how just one particle of light can trigger photosynthesis in bacteria — finally revealing the first step of the crucial process.

Belfast Live

NI dog deaths to blue green algae “didn’t have to happen”

Expert Lucia Ross said: "Toxins can become airborne and cause respiratory distress in some people and animals."

Daily Mirror

Man dies from rare flesh-eating bacteria after eating raw oysters from food stand

The 54-year-old man from Missouri became infected after eating the popular dish bought from a food stand in the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, the St. Louis County Public Health Department has said

The Hindu

Explained | Leptospirosis, a disease that surges in the monsoon months

Leptospirosis has emerged as an important infectious disease in the world today. It is a potentially fatal zoonotic bacterial disease that tends to have large outbreaks after heavy rainfall or flooding. This article explains its character, symptoms, risk factors, and precautions.

The Independent UK

Man dies after eating raw oysters from Missouri seafood stand

Missouri man’s death from Vibrio vulnificus bacteria comes after scientists’ warning that climate change will bring about more cases

Inverse

Asymptomatic Cases Could Hold The Key To Resisting Infectious Diseases

Researchers are working on a way to help people not to resist an infection but to tolerate one.

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