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Find the route of Black Death
Medicine - Health

Find the route of Black Death

Black death once caused one of the most terrible disasters in human history and killed several tens of millions of medieval people, ...

December 15, 2018
The most terrible diseases of all time
Medicine - Health

The most terrible diseases of all time

Many people think that plague, leprosy and polio ... are diseases of the past, no longer affecting us, it is a wrong thought.

December 15, 2018
The woman was left alone in the Ebola epidemic
Medicine - Health

The woman was left alone in the Ebola epidemic

The fear of Ebola infection and the overloaded health system has left many pregnant women in West Africa abandoned at birth. 1/7 pregnant women face the risk of death wh…

December 15, 2018
Black death can return
Medicine - Health

Black death can return

US scientists warn that the plague that once killed 75 million people worldwide could re-occur in the future.

December 14, 2018
Spa can spread disease in winter
Medicine - Health

Spa can spread disease in winter

The outbreak of water-related plague still occurs in winter, usually after people take a hot bath or spa.

December 14, 2018
10 diseases once terrified humans
Medicine - Health

10 diseases once terrified humans

The European population was halved by the plague, while the Spanish flu killed about 20 to 100 million people around the world earlier in the century.

December 14, 2018
Decoding the gene that causes the Black Death
Medicine - Health

Decoding the gene that causes the Black Death

A group of scientists from Britain, Germany and the US has just announced that they have deciphered the genome of the bacterium causing the Black Death, the worst plague…

December 14, 2018
Salmonella spreads from frogs to humans
Medicine - Health

Salmonella spreads from frogs to humans

African dwarf frogs contain salmonella bacteria that have infected more than 113 people, mostly children. Salmonella is naturally present in the intestine, in the feces…

December 14, 2018
Strange flu outbreaks in Papua New Guinea
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Strange flu outbreaks in Papua New Guinea

Two outbreaks at the same time are dysentery and flu-like symptoms in a remote area of ​​Papua New Guinea that killed at least 47 people and infected more than 2,000 oth…

December 14, 2018