Cholera is contracted from a bacterium generally transmitted through contaminated food or water.

Source: https://guardian.ng/news/malawi-shuts-schools-over-worsening-cholera-outbreak/

For about a decade, Italy’s olive trees have been under vicious attack from the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/italy-olive-harvest-threatened-deadly-bacteria-millions-olive-trees-puglia-3467576?cid=cna_flip_070214

"Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacterium that can live in our bodies and which usually causes no harm," says Dr Pat O'Brien, consultant obstetrician at University College London Hospitals.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66856250?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Health officials said that leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin and peripheral nerves caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, mycobacterium leprae, also known as “Hansen’s Bacillus”.

Source: https://kuenselonline.com/leprosy-cases-on-the-rise-again/

In addition to weather challenges, its biggest olive-growing region is struggling to contain a bacterium that is killing olive trees.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2023/0629/Dragons-skeletons-and-a-pirate-queen-top-our-summer-beach-reads?icid=rss

In the end, the mystery is solved, and the culprit was the bacterium Bartonella henselae, which causes cat scratch disease and disseminated bartonellosis, which can often mimic schizophrenia.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/02/17/swamp-boy-tells-the-true-story-of-a-medical-mystery.html

Shutting down dangerous gain-of-function research–by which I mean research designed to take a virus or bacterium and make it more deadly in humans or in other animals–would only affect a tiny percentage of virologists worldwide.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2023/02/27/the-scientific-error-that-might-have-caused-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The bacterium was revealed to be a highly efficient degrader of intestinal mucus, the protective slimy layer that separates most intestinal bacteria from the host cells.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-previously-unknown-bacterial-species-patients.html

The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.

Source: https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/03/gender-transformative-leadership-key-ending-tb-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gender-transformative-leadership-key-ending-tb-good

The HSE added: “The bacterium Legionella pneumophila and related bacteria are common in natural water sources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs but usually in low numbers.

Source: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/family-catch-legionnaires-disease-after-27323719

These energies are intense: The contributing electric field in a single bacterium can be stronger than those in lightning bolts.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-02-reveal-bacterial-electrochemical-energy-powers.html

This bacterium typically spreads in hospitals and can cause pneumonia, meningitis and urinary tract infections.

Source: https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-linked-with-global-rise-in-antibiotic-resistance-211249

When a tick that’s fed on one of these infected mice then feeds on a human, it can pass along that bacterium, which causes Lyme disease.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/07/22/what-you-need-to-know-about-ticks/