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Caitjan Gainty runs the Wellcome-funded Healthy Scepticism project. Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a ...

Gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships hit a 12-year high in 2024, and 2025 has been even worse, with cruise lines seeing an entire year's worth of outbreaks in only the first quarter of the year.

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In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that disease is caused by microorganisms. The germ theory, as it is now universally ...

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...