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In the months running up to the election, Dr. Ronny Jackson was distributing thousands of pills to the White House staff, including Fentanyl, Provigil, Ambien, Morphine, Ketamine, and Hydrocodone. A new DoD report claims that they were given to 'ineligible' recipients.
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TIL if you crush up Ritalin pills and inject that mixture you may get a rare condition called Ritalin lung where the pill filler recrystallizes in your lungs
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TIL that researchers believe that up to 65% of people with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY chromosomes) are never diagnosed. The condition usually isn't diagnosed until puberty or adulthood because of how mild the symptoms are.
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Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms.
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Kitum cave, Kenya. Believed to be the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the deadliest diseases.
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New drug found to slow Alzheimer's hailed a 'turning point in fight against disease'
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‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humans
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TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease, which infects nearly 250 million people and causes over 200,000 deaths a year. The parasites exit the snails into waters, they seek you, penetrate right through your skin, migrate through your body, end up in your blood and remain there for years.
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Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science | Florida
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TIL about fatal familial insomnia (FFI), an extremely rare brain disease that causes the victim to lose their ability of sleep permanently, resulting in death
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Stoneman Syndrome: A rare disease that gradually throughout life turn tendon into bone
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TIL we still don't know what disease killed more than half the Native Americans in 1500.
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TIL of Dr. Jessie Lazear, an American physician who studied yellow fever under the famous Dr. Walter Reed. He allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito, and died of the disease himself 17 days later, confirming how the disease was spread. His sacrifice saved millions.
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YSK 23andMe was formed to build a massive database capable of identifying new links between specific genes and diseases in order to eventually create their own pharmaceutical drugs.
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Lupus trigger discovered, reaearchers were able to trace a form of the autoimmune disease lupus back to a single mutation
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Update: Tree company bought land across from us and created a dumping ground for thousands of dead diseased trees
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People forget when diseases like polio used to put up hall of fame numbers
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TIL that it wasn’t just Smallpox that was unintentionally introduced to the Americas, but also bubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to *any* of these diseases.
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This is how serious the MAGA disease is!
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‘Women get diseases from armpit hair’💀
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TIL Prion diseases result when a protein misfolds into an abnormal form called prion. They are much smaller than viruses and do not contain any genetic material. There is sporadic, familial, and acquired prion disease, such as Mad Cow disease. All prion diseases are fatal.
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"Mouse Fever" - a new disease transmitted by rodents in the trenches - has significantly reduced russian combat capabilities in Kupyansk direction
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In the original script of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' (2014), when Harry Osborn is told by his father that he inherited the Green Goblin disease, he was supposed to exclaim, "Agh, this disease... It's goblin' me up!"
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Researchers discover a genetic variant that reduces odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease by up to 70% and may be protecting thousands of people in the US. It appears to allow toxic forms of amyloid out of the brain through the blood-brain barrier, and heralds a new direction in drug development.
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Vaccines DON’T cause autism ya idiot
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I'm the scientist putting autism in the vaccines AMA
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Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden
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Utah man posing as doctor selling fake COVID-19 cure arrested after three-year manhunt
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TIL: João Teixeira de Faria is a self proclaimed medium and "psychic surgeon" able to perform remote and invisible surgeries. He's been on James Randi, Oprah, ABC news, etc. He made $10 million in 2014 selling cures. Many patients died and he is now in jail for 489 years for numerous crimes.
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TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)
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Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
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Florida family sentenced for selling fake COVID-19 cure via church
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Researchers were over the moon that they finally found a cure for the virus that had turned thousands of people into zombies.
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TIL: William Bailey was a Harvard dropout turned salesman who promoted using radioactive radium as a cure-all. He claimed it can cure mental illness, diabetes, flus, etc. He became wealthy. He died of cancer and when his body was exhumed, it was found to be "ravaged by radiation".
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Man 'cured' of HIV and leukaemia after receiving stem cells from donor with rare mutation
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Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
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This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop | No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth.
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TIL that while the use of Lemons as a cure for Scurvy was published in 1753 the British Admiralty refused to use it until 1793, while the Merchant Navy ignored the discovery all the way up to 1867.
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“Zombies”? You mean the “infection spreading ones”?
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Mystery in Japan as dangerous streptococcal infections soar to record levels with 30% fatality rate
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TIL measles destroys your immune system's memory. Most deaths are from other secondary infections.
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Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk
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White-tailed deer across Ohio have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, a new study found – and viral variants evolve about 3 times faster in deer than in humans. Genomic analysis showed about 30 infections in deer had been introduced by humans – a figure that surprised researchers.
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Put in the ICU, but claims his COVID infection wasn’t severe and the hospital tried to kill him
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Some people's brain function still affected by Long COVID years after infection
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Brain fungal infection produces Alzheimer's disease-like changes - Researchers discovered how the fungus Candida albicans enters the brain in mice and generates amyloid beta-like peptides, toxic protein fragments from the amyloid precursor protein related to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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TIL that the precursor to LASIK, Radial Keratotomy, where operations to correct vision would be done “manually with a blade”, often led to many issues, such as vision loss and infection because the incision remains open indefinitely. "It is well documented that RK incisions never completely heal..."
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TIL: In the 80s, DC created Hemo - Goblin, a villain that last one issue who give AIDS/HIV if he bites you and he operated in South Africa. He infected several superheroes.
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Rabies? No. Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans." Its E. Cuniculi a parasite inside the rabbit.
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This Neanderthal from 50,000 years ago show he was infected with Herpes Virus, and an Adenovirus, and another Virus
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TIL that the psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
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Hyper-sexual "zombie cicadas" that are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year
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Anthrax-infected Russians escape Siberian hospital
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"I put pee in my eye now they are infected!"
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Let’s be honest. They got infected because of plot
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Family members infected with brain worms after eating undercooked bear meat
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The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed in the depths of the pandemic
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The pandemic destroyed Gen Z
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Incel harasses teenage girls during pandemic
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They have killed more people than pandemics
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Older boomers won the pandemic after becoming a whopping $14 trillion richer, Fed data reveals—and Gen X is losing the race
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A study of more than 38,000 young people has confirmed what researchers had begun to suspect: the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a jump in cases of type 1 diabetes in children and teenagers.
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what was very popular in the 2020 pandemic but now its pretty much dead?
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The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed in the depths of the pandemic
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The next pandemic getting cooked up in that VIP Room
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TIL that due to the polio virus, as of 1959 there were a total of 1200 people permanently confined to an 'Iron Lung', a device which mimics the breathing motion of the body using variable pressure leaving the patient with only their head exposed. As of 2017, there are still 3.
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Adobe's bullsh*t or getting more virus alerts than CDC seeing a bat?
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It's definitely to "protect you from viruses"
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Can someone explain what’s happened to this rabbit in my backyard? Is that a third eye? Or is this the virus that makes rabbits grow horns?
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I knew how careful I had to be when lifting the deadliest airborne virus known to man out of the vault.
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“B-But viruses don’t exist”
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I love vibing to the rabies virus
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If you ever used one of these perpetual towel contraptions to dry your hands in the 1970s you’re probably immune to all forms of viruses and diseases now
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The down bad virus.
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The Kiana expy is a memetic virus which haunts the brains of the unlearned
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Experts warn deadly cat virus could be catastrophic for UK
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A virus starts to spread on earth wiping 1 billion, so Elon Musk and other billionaires made a bunch of CryoChambers to freeze the rich and powerful for the people of the future to unfreeze them when the virus has stopped spreading.
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I think it's virus mom
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New COVID ‘FLiRT’ variants show virus isn’t going away
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HP cites threat of viruses from non-HP printer cartridges to justify blocking their use, experts sceptical
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TIL the U.S. government is worried about generative AI being used to create new viruses
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In world 1st, virus spotted attached to 2nd virus
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Thrax is a really cool design for a killer virus (Osmosis Jones)
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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest
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Poilievre rips Trudeau over shocking documents that reveal a massive security breach at the top government laboratory where the most dangerous viruses and pathogens are handled. Trudeau tried to cover this up for years.
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Woman in Japan dies of Oz virus in world 1st, possibly tick-borne
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In 2005, a medical technician invented Rapex to help prevent rape in South Africa. It resembles a female condom with sharp teeth. Any man who attempts to rape a woman impales himself on the teeth and must go to hospital to have the device removed
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Nurse said I was squeamish because I hadn’t had children yet. I traumatized her by telling her about the illegal medical testing I endured as a child.
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Mariupol doctor who betrayed wounded Ukrainian soldiers to Russians is sentenced to life in prison
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My wife died in the ICU because she was anti-vax. It's the doctors fault!
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Musk and Rogan harassed a doctor and a virologist to the point a crazed right winger confronted him at home
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TIL in 1998 Lay's introduced fat free "WOW" chips containing a fat substitute called "Olestra." They were incredibly popular with $400 million in sales their first year. The following year sales dropped in half as Olestra caused side effects like "abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and "anal leakage"
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The side effects just cause more depression
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New Hampshire's GOP are taking a stand—against the polio vaccine
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Jonas Salk creates the first polio vaccine, 1955. Salk decided not to patent his polio vaccine so that it would be affordable for millions of people who couldn't afford it. In an interview, Edward R. Murrow asked Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine.
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"I won't take vaccines" *proceeds to get polio*
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Obviously hadn’t learned anything from Florida situation. Platform 2024 brings back polio……
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Track 61 in NYC under the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Used for secretly transporting US presidents notably Franklin D. Roosevelt to hide his polio.
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Dr Klenner was a quack and Vitamin C doesn't cure polio
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Cure polio with vitamin C not vaccines