Category Archives: Viva!

Global Health: A Virus Even More Dangerous Than Zika to Pregnant Women

The Zika virus must take the “side roads” into the placenta to infect a fetus, one researcher said — but the Rift Valley fever virus takes the “expressway.”

Whoops, This Virginia Woman’s Christmas Tree Was Filled With Praying Mantises

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The annual Christmastime practice of cutting down a live tree—dragging it indoors, laboriously propping it up in a living room amid a shower of fallen needles and curse words, only to haul it back outside two weeks later—is one that defies logic to begin with. If a bunch of praying mantis eggs happen to come along for…

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