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A tick capable of making its victims allergic to meat and dairy (among other items) and spreading a virus that has no known cure may be reaching new areas, data shows.

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Jason Collins, a longtime NBA center who became the first openly gay male to play in any of America’s four leading ...

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Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after about 80 people died from the virus in the Democratic ...

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As ...