Nov 19 2019
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The bubonic plague, infamously responsible for the deaths of millions of 14th century Europeans and a very upsetting…
Sep 22 2016
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Attention cat-lovers and those who merely tolerate them: cat scratch fever is real and just like the CDC’s strident…
Aug 2 2016
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Two weeks ago, Shannen Doherty revealed photos of herself with a shaved head, a symbolic announcement that she had…
Jun 3 2016
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In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of French scientists described the case of a 24-year-old…
Mar 29 2016
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“It feels like someone came in and confiscated my brain,” Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster wrote
Feb 4 2016
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As the Zika virus continues to scare the shit out of everyone, fertility clinics and sperm banks are trying to adopt…
Jan 10 2016
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Uh oh. It seems our our blessed Church of Chipotle has gone astray and lost itself in the mire of legal…
Oct 30 2015
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Wow, excellent: according to reports, a teenage girl in Bend, Oregon, contracted a case of bubonic plague from a…
May 2 2015
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On March 20, a 44-year-old Liberian woman was diagnosed with Ebola. The case initially puzzled doctors because the…
Dec 30 2014
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While ebola hasn't been in the news as much in present weeks—prompting some to speculate that it's a…
Oct 16 2014
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Ebola has killed thousands of people in West Africa and seriously impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands more.…
Oct 14 2014
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On October 1st, the New York Times published a photograph of a four-year-old girl in Sierra Leone. In the…
Aug 7 2014
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The Ice Bucket Challenge is sweeping my Facebook news feed and has gone as far as to be featured the Today Show,…
Mar 14 2014
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Back in 2000, measles was considered to be "eliminated" in the United States. But today—thanks largely to the…
Feb 25 2014
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In Northern California’s Bay Area, an illness that resembles polio is affecting children and doctors aren’t sure…
Feb 17 2014
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This is frightening: Look at how many people, in each state in the United States, are opting not to vaccinate their…
Feb 13 2014
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I love adorable kitty-cats as much as the next non-monster, but, as the poets say: "Just because you love something…
Dec 28 2013
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Two parents in Texas have been, for the last three months, forced to watch their 12-year-old daughter suffer from a…
Dec 21 2013
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According to a new poll, men and women have very different perceptions of what goes on during cold and flu season…
Oct 6 2013
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Data for California’s 2010 outbreak of whooping cough is in and it is telling parents, as politely as possible, to…