A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in ...

If you've ever had a head of garlic sit out too long, you may have noticed small, green shoots coming out of the cloves. These little sprouts are known as garlic germs. While you might think to throw ...

It’s 6 a.m. Your alarm shrieks and you hit the snooze button. You have just deposited germs on your alarm clock. Most of us cringe when strangers cough or sneeze near us in public. But hands are the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health report that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 can live on plastic and stainless steel for up to three days and ...

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Editor’s note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is fiction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real ...