germs
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Measles Is Back With a Vengeance, Killed 200,000 in 2019
A new report from the World Health Organisation and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention highlights a bleak reality: Measles, the highly contagious but vaccine-preventable viral illness, infected at least 860,000 people and killed over 200,000 worldwide in 2019 — a roughly 50% jump in deaths from 2016. Sadly, the covid-19 pandemic is likely…
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Scientists Reconstruct ‘Lola’ After Finding Her DNA In 5,700-Year-Old ‘Chewing Gum’
Scientists in Denmark have squeaked out an entire human genome from a prehistoric piece of “chewing gum.” Made from birch tar, the 5,700-year-old gum also contained evidence of diet and disease and is providing a remarkable snapshot of life during the early Neolithic.
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Scientists Peer Inside The Disgusting Cloud Of Living Things That Surrounds You Daily
From the minute we’re born, we’re surrounded by a swarm of things not visible to the human eye — dangerous pathogens, harmless microbes, and a wide assortment of chemicals. A new study out of Stanford University seems to illuminate this hidden world, and the results are admittedly both cool and terrifying.
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You Don’t Even Want To Know The Results Of This Airport Germ Study
New research identifies the various ways in which we’re most likely to come into contact with communicable diseases at airports. Turns out that toilets are surprisingly clean, but the same cannot be said for those plastic bins used at airport security, which are absolutely covered in viruses.