Bacteria

The man has been isolated

A 75-year-old man from Huddersfield is the latest Briton to die of a suspected outbreak of Legionnaires disease linked to a Bulgarian three-star resort, reports Daily Mail. 

Brian Taylor, 75, was admitted to hospital after returning from a week's holiday at the Hotel Kalofer on Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. 

Samples taken by the Active Users Association show that the ice cream which is sold on the street may be dangerous. In 4 of 11 samples was found the Escherichia Coli bacteria.

The EC undertook measures aimed at curbing the spread of unauthorized genetically modified bacteria in Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) in fodder, reported the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Following an inspection the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency banned an imported fodder containing unauthorized form of Vitamin B2.

A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices, writes the Independent.

The "bionic mushroom" was covered with bacteria capable of producing electricity and strands of graphene that collected the current.

Sofia. We have registered a rise in incidence of Lyme disease, Marseilles fever, dysentery and salmonella, Director of the National Cetnre for Contagious and Parasitic Diseases and epidemiologist Prof. Dr. Todor Kantardzhiev said in an interview with Focus News Agency.

The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) has launched a campaign to inform citizens about Legionnaires' disease following an increase in cases reported in Greece.

An international team of researchers headed by Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with Greek archaeogenticist Maria A. Spyrou, has decoded two 3,800-year-old genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.

As Yemen enters its third year of civil war, civilians are facing the prospect of another deadly outbreak of cholera, the UN children's fund has warned.

UNDP on Friday said that while some of the raspberry seedlings it distributed in Bosnia to help the country recover from the 2014 floods had been infected with the bacteria Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, it was not harmful for humans.

"Bacteria found on seedlings is not harmful to human health. Contamination of soil was not determinate," the UNDP statement said.