Tag: diseases
There’s New Hope for an HIV Vaccine
Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused some 40 million deaths worldwide.While medication known...
Despite Bird Flu Risk, Raw-Milk Drinkers Are Undaunted
To drink raw milk at any time is to flirt with dangerous germs. But, amid an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in US...
How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, almost all of us have at least trace amounts of methylmercury—the form of mercury we tend to...
She Didn’t Qualify for a Transplant—So Now She Has a Two...
A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at...
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
When the team infected mice with Candida albicans strains taken from the severely affected Covid patients, they discovered that the mice generated increased...
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the...
