Diseases
Plagues, parasites, and pathogens — the diseases that ravaged populations and the medical horrors behind them.
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Tape Worm Diets: It Gives You Brain Worms
The tapeworm diet promises weight loss without effort, but the reality is far more horrifying: brain cysts, seizures, blindness, and death. Explore the myth, the medical truth, and why people still risk everything for a parasite.
Kuru: The Horrific Laughing Death You Can’t Stop
The devastating true story of Kuru, a fatal prion disease that struck the Fore people of Papua New Guinea through a funeral rite built on love—and continued killing for half a century after the practice ended.
Unit 731: The Secret That America Helped Keep
Japan's biological warfare program killed thousands of prisoners in documented experiments. After the war, the United States secretly traded immunity from prosecution for the research data. The full scope of what happened — and what was suppressed — took decades to surface.