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The Top COVID-19 Vaccine Myths Spreading Online

Last Updated: Alissa Eckert, MS and Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC This special report has been provided to Britannica by NewsGuard, which offers the service HealthGuard to fight online health care misinformation. It was written by John Gregory and originally published at newsguardtech.com. Kendrick McDonald, Chine Labbe, and Anicka Slachta contributed reporting. It was last updated April 7, 2021. Scientists and researchers managed to produce vaccines to protect against COVID-19. Vaccine candidates have recently been approved in some countries and are in the approval process in others, yet misinformation about the safety and effects of any future vaccine is already threatening its rollout. In this report, we catalogue the top myths about a COVID-19 vaccine that have appeared in NewsGuard’s ratings of more than 6,000 news and information sites worldwide.

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Tuberculosis Influenced the Human Genome | Genetics And Genomics

Tuberculosis Influenced the Human Genome Throughout human history, our species has come into contact with both harmless and infectious microbes that have changed us, like gut bacteria and retroviruses. But more recent infectious disease outbreaks have also left their mark on human biology. New research reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics has suggested that tuberculosis (TB) has had a variety of influences on human biology, including the genome. "Present-day humans are the descendants of those who have survived many things: climate changes and big epidemics, including the Black Death, Spanish flu, and tuberculosis," noted senior study author Lluis Quintana-Murci of the Institut Pasteur in France. "This work uses population genetics to dissect how natural selection has acted on our genomes."

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South African COVID variant found in New Yorker for first time

"We are in a race right now — between our ability to vaccinate and these variants which are actively trying to proliferate — and we will only win that race if we stay smart and disciplined," said Cuomo in a press release...

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