Dracunculiasis (commonly known as guinea-worm disease), is a parasitic infection caused by drinking stagnant water contaminated with parasite-infected water fleas of the cyclops genus, according to ...

“Hashem sent the fiery serpents against the people and they bit the people. A large multitude of Israel died” (Bamidbar 21:6). Second, the pasuk tells us (21:7) that the people asked Moshe to pray to ...

(CNN) -- "It's such a loser of a disease that some countries eradicated it without even knowing they'd had it. It can naturally disappear." The disease Sandy Cairncross of the London School of Hygiene ...

The villain of this new documentary is a worm — but not just any worm. "We have known monsters, all kinds of monsters," Waleed Eltayeb declares. "Then there's the dragon, this fiery serpent, this ...

Today’s readings pair the symbol of the mounted seraph as a remedy for the bite of fiery serpents in the desert with the “lifting up” of Jesus on the cross. It is an astonishing merger that suggests ...

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