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There’s Been a Staggering Increase in People Killed by Fungi Every Year, Study Finds
The global burden and death toll of fungi has substantially climbed over the past decade, new research finds. The study estimates that fungal infections help kill nearly 4 million people annually—almost double the amount estimated by similar research in 2012. Co-infections like HIV and tuberculosis, a lack of speedy and reliable diagnostic testing, and growing…
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2020 Saw Most Babies Born With Syphilis Since 1994
More than 2,000 infants in the U.S. were born with syphilis in 2020, according to recent data presented by researchers with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The preliminary figures represent the highest annual toll of congenital syphilis reported in over 25 years. At least 139 children died from the illness last year.
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The U.S. Still Has a Big STI Problem
Sexually transmitted infections continue to be a major headache for Americans and their wallets, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. About one in five Americans in the U.S. were thought to carry an STI in 2018, while there were 26 million new cases estimated that same…
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The Fathers Project Imagines A Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened
While we’re now able to look back and see, statistically, how the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the North American queer community, it’s impossible to quantify the impact that lost generation of lives could have had on the world had they lived. Leo Herrera’s The Fathers Project web series imagines a world in…