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Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Linked media - Connected media As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens in their wake. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some that were resistant…

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Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Linked media - Associated media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink…

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Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Associated media - Connected media Mr. Bouton said that he had not been aware of the full extent of Dr. Oxnam’s alcoholism and that he had had inklings about his…

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Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Connected media - Associated media The loss of biodiversity played an especially large role in driving up disease risk, the researchers found. Many scientists have posited that biodiversity can protect…

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RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Connected media - Connected media Dr. Clinton White, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said microscopic tapeworm eggs are sticky and easily…

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Kris Hallenga, Who Urged Early Breast Cancer Screenings, Dies at 38

Benjamin Davis Tyler

Associated media - Associated media Kristen Hallenga was born on Nov. 11, 1985, in Norden, a small town in northern Germany, to a German father and an English mother, both…