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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)
The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, ...
Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats
If scorching heat waves, destructive storms, prolonged droughts and rising seas aren’t enough to make some folks fear the ...
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Campbell Hall Plague spreads
Hot take: college is like preschool. College students must painfully relearn how to make friends and share their things. And, ...
Scientists discover new gene-to-gene interaction that increases risk of alopecia
In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King's College London found that changes in two parts of the genome work ...
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Gene-to-Gene Interaction Increases Alopecia Risk
In a new study, researchers have found that changes in two parts of the genome work together to influence alopecia risk.
Watch out for rats: This is the reason why their numbers are increasing in US cities according to experts
Scientists sorted through data from more than a dozen US and foreign cities to determine what is driving the increase in rat populations in urban areas.