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Just when you thought we’d heard enough about diarrhea outbreaks in the US, along comes another stomach-churning story. And this one has a particularly disturbing twist… it’s spreading through the gay community like wild fire. A bacterial infection that causes dysentery is spreading thanks to sexual contact, and scientists are warning that some of these strains are actually becoming so resistant to antibiotics that they are verging on becoming untreatable. Yikes. It’s a nasty little bacterium bug called Shigella, and if you’ve ever read about the horrors of dysentery during the days of the Oregon Trail, you already know how...

A University of Missouri professor who is leading a study of COVID-19 in wastewater said his lab detected the Delta variant weeks before the first case was reported. The state is currently seeing a surge due to the Delta variant and has just under 50 percent of its adult population fully vaccinated. “We detected it in the first wastewater facility on May 10, a week later we saw it in four different wastewater treatment facilities and by the third week it was everywhere,” Marc Johnson, study lead, told Fox 2 Now. “It was across the state, all different parts.” Wastewater...