How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics

How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics

A team of researchers led by postdoctoral ecology fellow Tara Stewart Merrill recently published findings that may help scientists better understand the transmission of vector-borne infections, Science Daily reports. Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, “account...
Hospital superbug traced to remote island beach

Hospital superbug traced to remote island beach

According to SciDev.Net, researchers have located a recently emerged environmental multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen on India’s remote Andaman Islands. The fungus Candida auris has plagued hospitals in 40 countries since its emergence a decade ago. This pathogen...