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Misleading bat soup videos, vastly inflated death tolls, quack remedies and vaccine conspiracies—a global deluge of misinformation is compounding public fears about China’s new coronavirus and stoking racial stereotypes. Phoebe, a 40-year-old Hong Kong doctor, has been dismayed by some of the messages cropping up in her family Whatsapp group in recent days. “I’ve seen […]
The tropical tick Hyalomma that can transmit, among other things, stain fever, is in Germany on the rise: This year were found in 50 copies, in 2018, there were a total of 35. Experts believe that the ticks have wintered in Germany. Now, there is a first typhus case of suspicion. At the end of […]
Cancer used to be thought of as a disease of the anatomy, but these days it increasingly is understood as a disease of the genes—one that theoretically can be treated with drugs engineered to target the genetic mutations driving a patient’s cancer. Melanoma, a type of skin cancer, is the fifth-most common cancer in the […]