The Cuyahoga County Justice Center’s water system was disinfected Friday due to the detection of bacteria that causes ...

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A fungal disease called Neopestalotiopsis, first detected in the U.S. in 2017, is causing significant crop loss for ...

Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you love.

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Having measles doesn't benefit the immune system, as some believe. Science has documented that it kills the immune cells we ...