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Could Video Games and Other Entertainment Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19? - Scientific American Could Video Games and Other Entertainment Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19? - Scientific American Posted: 15 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PDT Stopping the spread of infectious disease demands that we meet people where they are: on their screens. As the coronavirus COVID-19 global health emergency continues, better public health engagement, through entertainment, could be a key strategy for successful intervention. The CDC and WHO have worked hard to make health information shareworthy and easily accessible. But that's not enough. Our story-hungry population needs innovative public health narratives that people can easily engage with through mobile devices. Evidence supporting this kind of public engagement already exists. Recently, more than 130 million players managed to crash the Web site of the mobile video game Plague Inc. as concerns abou...

20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history - Livescience.com 20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history - Livescience.com Posted: 20 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PDT Throughout the course of history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course of history and, at times, signaling the end of entire civilizations. Here are 20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics, dating from prehistoric to modern times. 1. Prehistoric epidemic: Circa 3000 B.C. The discovery of a 5,000-year-old house in China filled with skeletons is evidence of a deadly epidemic.  (Image credit: Photo courtesy Chinese Archaeology) About 5,000 years ago, an epidemic wiped out a prehistoric village in China. The bodies of the dead were stuffed inside a house that was later burned down. No age group was spared, as the skeletons of juveniles, young adults and middle-age people were found inside the house. The archaeological site is now call...

“Rabbi says rampaging monkeys a sign of a plague - The Week UK” plus 2 more Rabbi says rampaging monkeys a sign of a plague - The Week UK Renewal in a time of plague - Prince George Citizen How epidemics have changed the world - The Washington Post Rabbi says rampaging monkeys a sign of a plague - The Week UK Posted: 30 Mar 2020 10:57 PM PDT A rabbi says that rampaging monkeys in Thailand are a sign of a biblical plague. Noting that the monkeys have gone wild due to the lack of people out and about during the coronavirus outbreak, Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi cited a verse in Deuteronomy which states: "Hashem your God will dislodge those peoples before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them at once, else the wild beasts would multiply to your hurt." Triangular UFO sited for third time this year  A triangle-shaped UFO has reportedly been spotted for the third time this year above Texas. Th...

“If you want to feel better about this pandemic, consider the Black Plague - New York Post” plus 1 more If you want to feel better about this pandemic, consider the Black Plague - New York Post Posted: 30 Mar 2020 05:48 PM PDT No one would make light of a pandemic that has already cost so much in terms of death , suffering and treasure — especially since there is undoubtedly so much more to come. But still, it must be said that if we are to have a pandemic, the early 21st century is the best time in all human history to have one. They used to be common. Yellow fever, malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases swept through American cities over and over in the early years of the nation, and there was little that doctors could do to help the victims. Their patients lived or died as fate and their immune systems would have it. With the birth of epidemiology as a science in the mid-19th century, however, these diseases rapidly abate...