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Click here to read the full original article.Although bacteria are single-celled and microscopically small, they still need energy to survive, just like us. One of the most efficient ways of acquiring energy for bacteria is through sweet, soluble carbohydrates: sugars.In fact, the keen ability of the deadly bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae to use the plant-derived sugar…

coronavirus arrived in an Indiana farm town mid-planting season and took root faster than the fields of seed corn, infecting hundreds and killing dozens. It tore though a pork processing plant and spread outward in a desolate stretch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. And in Colorado’s sparsely populated eastern plains, the virus erupted in a nursing…

Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer WP Rugby and by extension the Stormers are, I believe, the biggest losers in many respects from the nail-biting "transfer window" over South African professional rugby players that ended at midnight on Thursday ... even if it is really just the continuation of a scarily well-developed trend at Newlands.SIGN UP…

Yesterday, a case series in JAMA of 5,700 COVID-19 patients in New York City hospitals revealed a 9.7% death rate overall—21% when excluding those still hospitalized—and an 88.1% death rate among those requiring mechanical ventilation.Also, a new study in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),…

Published on Apr 22, 2020Melbourne University Professor Michael Wesley says a problem is emerging in that "the blame over COVID-19 is starting to infect geopolitical tensions". It comes as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has called for enhanced transparency from China over the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. While Prime Minister Scott Morrison has…