CDC Warns Against the Scourge That is Cat Scratch Fever
Attention cat-lovers and those who merely tolerate them: cat scratch fever is real and just like the CDC’s strident…
Shannen Doherty Reveals That Cancer Has Spread, Is Undergoing Chemotherapy
Two weeks ago, Shannen Doherty revealed photos of herself with a shaved head, a symbolic announcement that she had…
You Might Be Able to Contract Zika From Oral Sex
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of French scientists described the case of a 24-year-old…
How Celebrities Are Changing the Way We See Chronic Lyme
“It feels like someone came in and confiscated my brain,” Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster wrote in…
Sperm Banks and Fertility Clinics Taking Steps to Keep the Zika Virus Out of Their Supply
As the Zika virus continues to scare the shit out of everyone, fertility clinics and sperm banks are trying to adopt…
Chipotle Sued for Concealing 'Faulty' Quality Controls From Investors
Uh oh. It seems our our blessed Church of Chipotle has gone astray and lost itself in the mire of legal entanglements.…
An Oregon Teen Has Come Down With a Bout of the Bubonic Plague
Wow, excellent: according to reports, a teenage girl in Bend, Oregon, contracted a case of bubonic plague from a flea…
Liberian Woman Contracted Ebola Through Unprotected Sex
On March 20, a 44-year-old Liberian woman was diagnosed with Ebola. The case initially puzzled doctors because the…
Latest Ebola Outbreak Caused By Bat Play, Horrifying Rain of Bats
While ebola hasn't been in the news as much in present weeks—prompting some to speculate that it's a government-created…
Put a Virus On It: The Many Confusing Ebola Crafts of Etsy
Ebola has killed thousands of people in West Africa and seriously impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands more.…
From Miasma to Ebola: The History of Racist Moral Panic Over Disease
On October 1st, the New York Times published a photograph of a four-year-old girl in Sierra Leone. In the photograph,…
Pouring a Bucket of Ice Water Over Your Head Won't Cure ALS
The Ice Bucket Challenge is sweeping my Facebook news feed and has gone as far as to be featured the Today Show, so…
There's a Major Measles Outbreak in NYC, Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers
Back in 2000, measles was considered to be "eliminated" in the United States. But today—thanks largely to the efforts…
Polio-Like Mystery Illness Afflicts Children in Northern California
In Northern California’s Bay Area, an illness that resembles polio is affecting children and doctors aren’t sure what…
A State-by-State Look at Where Kids Are Not Being Vaccinated
This is frightening: Look at how many people, in each state in the United States, are opting not to vaccinate their…
Your Cat's Mouth Is a Festering Hole Lined with Disease-Riddled Knives
I love adorable kitty-cats as much as the next non-monster, but, as the poets say: "Just because you love something…
Health Insurer Crappily Denies Young Girl Necessary Gastric Bypass
Two parents in Texas have been, for the last three months, forced to watch their 12-year-old daughter suffer from a…
More Than Half of Women Think Their Sick Boyfriends Are Faking It
According to a new poll, men and women have very different perceptions of what goes on during cold and flu season (or…
Surprise! Vaccine Opt-Outs Fueled California’s Whooping Cough Outbreak
Data for California’s 2010 outbreak of whooping cough is in and it is telling parents, as politely as possible, to…
Foam Party Ends in Some Seriously Fucked Up Eye Issues
Wait. Foam parties are a thing? Outside of Ibiza in 1998? Well, they've apparently spread to Florida where the funky…