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10 Facts About the Racial Disparity in COVID-19

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10 Facts About the Racial Disparity in COVID-19

The FDA Has Expanded Its List of Potentially Deadly Hand Sanitizers

Checking the label isn't enough—you should check the FDA's recall list.

The FDA Has Expanded Its List of Potentially Deadly Hand Sanitizers

9 Expert Tips for Safe Road Trips This Summer

It took them a while to agree on which podcast to listen to.

9 Expert Tips for Safe Road Trips This Summer

New Study Suggests That Raphael Died from Bloodletting and Pneumonia—Not Syphilis

Fever in the mornin', fever all through the night.

New Study Suggests That Raphael Died from Bloodletting and Pneumonia—Not Syphilis

Interactive Map of the U.S. Shows COVID-19 Hot Spots in Real Time

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“They Will Catch on Fire”: Michigan Library Asks Patrons Not to Microwave Their Books

Burning books may kill coronavirus germs, but at what cost?

Map Shows How Everyone Blamed Syphilis on Everyone Else

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse by Rembrandt van Rijn. De Lairesse, a painter and art theorist, had congenital syphilis that deformed his face and eventually blinded him.

Why Did States Require Blood Tests for Marriage Licenses for So Long?

A young woman gets tested for syphilis in a "trailer-laboratory" in Washington, D.C. in 1937.

8 Old-School Diseases Making a Comeback

Gout can cause a most hellish pain.

When People Held 'Plague Weddings' in Cemeteries to Try to Ward Off Disease

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Sir Isaac Newton Recommended an Innovative Cure for the Plague: Toad Puke

Don't ribbit 'til you try it.

“Slick” Julia Lyons: The Con Artist Who Posed as a Nurse During the 1918 Flu Pandemic—Then Robbed Her Patients

An actual nurse tends to a patient during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

5 Facts About Kawasaki Disease

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What Is CBD? What to Know Before You Buy

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At the Height of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Anti-Mask League of San Francisco Formed to Protest PPE

These New York tram conductors, photographed during the 1918 influenza, don't seem interested in joining any Anti-Mask League.

The Tiny Tuberculosis Huts of Colorado Springs

A 1910 postcard depicts the Modern Woodmen of America sanatorium in Colorado Springs, Colo.