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Let’s face it; in a world that is heavily reliant upon technology, especially the Internet, none of us are entirely safe from running into an online scam. There are literally thousands of them, and even though you may consider yourself “e-smart,” the people who set up these scams may be looking to target those who [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 12:01 am
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In today’s world when we think of healing someone, you probably think of medicine, vaccinations, and other common things that every doctor seems to use. However, in the past, before medicine wasn’t nearly as advanced as it is today, there were plenty of bizarre techniques used in order to heal or cure someone. Below is [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Filed under Bizarre, Humor, People, Television · Tagged bloodletting, cons, cure, depression, disease, diseases, ECT, Electroshock Therapy, fire cupping, flu, Hirudotherapy, leeches, lobotomies, lobotomy, Maggot Debridement Therapy, maggots, Malaria, malaria drug, medical, Medicine, mental illness, moxibustion, nobel prize, therapy, top 10 bizarre healing techniques, trepanation, vaccination, virus, viruses, Walter Freeman
The death toll from it has yet to reach 100, but an outbreak of swine flu has gotten huge amounts of attention in the media in recent weeks. Even though regular flu viruses have killed thousands in that time, swine flu is all over the news because of worry that it could escalate into a [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 1:01 am
Filed under Health, History · Tagged antonine plague, black death, bubonic plague, cholera, cholera pandemics, death, diseases, flu, infectious diseases, influenza, Malaria, Medicine, mosquito, mosquitoes, outbreak, pandemic, plague, plague of athens, Plague of Justinian, smallpox, spanish flu, swine flu, third pandemic, Typhoid, typhus, virus, viruses
Viruses can often be seen in a very poor light, but they aren’t all bad. In fact, we humans probably wouldn’t exist without viruses. Author Michael Brooks writes about the upside of sharing the planet with these ruthless killer machines. Here are the top 10 reasons to love viruses. Ah-Choo! 10. The virus gave us [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 1:09 am
Filed under Health, Science · Tagged antibiotics, cure, diseases, dna, Evolution, Health, lethal diseases, Life, mimivirus, nucleus, outbreak, scientists, virus, viruses
Warning: Some of the images and video may be disturbing. The common cold has no cure. Scientists have been trying for centuries to find the cure, which would undoubtedly make our lives easier. However, the common cold has nothing on these 10 infectious diseases. The diseases are, for lack of a better word, so viral [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 12:05 am
Filed under History, Nature · Tagged Animal, anthrax, Bizarre, cholera, common cold, cure, death, Ebola, fatality rate, Health, infectious diseases, influenza, lethal diseases, Malaria, medical, outbreak, SARS, smallpox, spanish flu, top 10 list, Typhoid, typhoid fever, typhoid mary, vaccination, variola virus, virus, viruses, War