Those who suffer from allergies know that the world is filled with all sorts of things that can threaten their health. Even the most innocuous items, such as peanuts, pollen, or cat […]
Some of the Weirdest Allergies Known to Exist
Benjamin Franklin’s Heartbreaking Words to Parents about Vaccination
Benjamin Franklin has earned a lasting place in history as a brilliant scientist, inventor, diplomat, and philosopher. Due to tragic circumstances, he was also compelled to become one of history’s first pro-vaccination […]
Cannibalism: It Actually Can Be a Laughing Matter
Cannibalism is certainly no laughing matter. Or is it?
Naturally Protected
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Man Flu Really is More Severe
Women have long disparaged men for acting as if their flu symptoms are more severe than those experienced by women. As it turns out, the men have been right all along. According […]
Not A Place for a Neat Freak or Germophobe
Manshiyat Naser is a slum of Cairo with a population of 60,000. Every space of this neighborhood is covered in garbage. For 20 million residents of Cairo, this where their garbage ends […]
Welcome to the White House. Don’t Drink the Water
Three Presidents who died in the years between 1840 and 1850 have inspired the well-known tales regarding the cause of their deaths. We all know that William Henry Harrison’s one-hour-and-forty-five-minute inaugural address, […]
Cheery Children’s Rhyme About a Ghastly Cataclysm
“Ring Around the Rosie” first appeared in Mother Goose in 1881. However, the origin of the poem may actually rest with the original Black Death outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century. The Black […]
The Disease of the Living Dead
A disease called Yaws can actually make people look like zombies. The disease causes painful, oozing sores the face, legs, arms, and feet. The painful wounds on the bottoms of the feet […]
Becoming a Human Statue
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), sometimes referred to as Stone Man Syndrome, is an extremely rare disease of the connective tissue. A mutation of the body’s repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, […]
Fish Got Your Tongue?
There’s something fishy going on in the Gulf of California. The fish know about it, but they aren’t talking. You could literally say that something has their tongues. Cymothoa exigua is a […]
Is the Bark Worse Than the Bite?
Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, also known as Tree Bark Syndrome, is an inherited skin disorder characterized by eruptions of wart-like lesions that may occur anywhere on the body. One type of lesions are reddish […]
Dracula’s Disease
Oversensitivity to sunlight, painful skin redness and blisters when exposed to sunlight, garlic causing agonizing abdominal pain, receding gums giving the appearance of fangs – sounds familiar? It’s not hard to deduce […]
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