Science and reality
The Pope's comments about contraception in areas struck by Zika don’t really counter the Catholic Church’s views on birth control—especially when it comes to abortion.
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Watch carefully, and you can see the birth of a conspiracy theory.
The post Why People Want to Believe the Zika Virus Is a Conspiracy appeared first on WIRED.
Myopia, or nearsightedness, has taken off like a silent epidemic. What's behind its sudden rise?
The post Lots of People Are Losing Distance Vision, and No One Knows Why appeared first on WIRED.
The stress from instability and trauma means that refugees are particularly vulnerable to mental disorders.
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Zika can be transmitted through blood transfusions. But the technology to inactivate nearly all pathogens in donated blood exists---and it’s existed for over a decade.
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For years, Zika has been collecting dust on the shelves of virus researchers in the United States. Now the research begins.
The post These Scientists Saw Zika Coming. Now They’re Fighting Back appeared first on WIRED.
Mosquito control is tedious, underfunded, and very, very necessary.
The post Ride With the Mosquito Hunters Protecting the US Against Zika appeared first on WIRED.
The number of Zika infections is going up as the number of microcephaly diagnoses is increasing. But—sing along; you know the words—correlation is not causation.
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Scientists know so little about the Zika virus that they’re not even sure how to find it in patients.
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Nobody knows how to make babies any more.
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