A Montana native and MSU Billings microbiologist is earning recognition for her work fighting diseases and for the way she's ...

Bacteria live all around us, even in us. Though some bacterial pathogens can cause dangerous infections, many of those microbes are harmless. Sometimes, the same strain of bacteria can lead to very ...

In February 2021, a collage image circulated via social media purported to show several persons who had developed staphylococcus infections (also known as staph infections) from wearing face masks, as ...

Staph infections remain a problem among infants, even the strains that are not resistant to drugs, a new study shows. The study cites estimates that around 5,000 babies will develop severe staph ...

Brian Dakss is a longtime New York-based editor and writer for CBS News, at the Radio network and with CBSNews.com. He has written and edited for NBC News, Dow Jones and numerous radio stations and ...

Otherwise innocuous bacteria can cause deadly infections when people have surgery or fall ill. To prevent trouble, patients sometimes have their bodies scrubbed clean of Staphylococcus aureus. But it ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...

Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington, D.C., the latest water testing results from the ...

Scientists have finally found an answer to one of the great mysteries about the most deadly bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus why it attacks primarily humans and not animals. And they now have an idea ...

The Browns have tried to make the building safe by keeping areas where the players dine, dress and meet clean, Crennel said, and by hiring a "sports coating" company to routinely examine the place.