vaccine
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Scientists Will Pay You Over $5,000 to Chug a Diarrhoea Drink
Would you be willing to potentially endure a week’s worth of diarrhoea for some cold hard cash? If you said yes, then you’re in luck. Researchers at Emory University are now recruiting healthy volunteers to take part in a trial that will test an experimental oral vaccine against Shigella bacteria, which cause a common and…
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Can a Virus Age You?
The following is an excerpt from Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg. Available for sale January 17, 2023 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.
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There Were 15 Million Excess Deaths Worldwide in First 2 Years of Pandemic, WHO Estimates
The COVID-19 pandemic caused far more death and destruction in its first two years than official numbers indicate, a new study from the World Health Organisation has found. The authors estimate that there were about 15 million excess deaths linked to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, with a likely majority of these deaths the…
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We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s How Meta Became the Internet’s Biggest Hub of Covid-19 Misinformation.
This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here.