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1 in 4 kindergartners aren’t fully vaccinated in county with measles outbreak
Washington is likely just the first state to experience a widespread outbreak of this scale.
Why you shouldn’t freak out about one rubella case at the Detroit auto show
Rubella isn’t as dangerous as measles, but it can cause real harm.
The nightmarish Asian longhorned tick has invaded the U.S.—and it can reproduce without mating
It's in at least eight states already, and no one is sure how long it's been here.
The International Space Station is crawling with bacteria and some may be harmful
Don't worry, no one has gotten sick yet.
Do I have a cold or the flu?
One infectious illness comes on slow, the other hits you like a truck.
Probiotics are drugs, so we should test them like drugs
Only a few probiotic pills have actually been proven to work, despite all the health claims supplement companies make about them.
Measles cases aren’t spiking, despite talk of an outbreak
2018 has been a pretty normal year for the measles, actually.
Death by yeast infection, and other strange ways to go
People pass away in some weird ways, and a national database lets us seem all of them.
Five things you might not know about the plague (not including the fact that it still exists)
Because yes, you can still catch the Black Death.