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For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle and leading to massive culls of poultry flocks, concerning infections in humans and grocery store aisles where nary an egg could be found. But nearly

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year H5N1 did something strange: it started infecting cattle. The absolute oddity of this leap may have been somewhat lost in the flood

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The scariest horror movies often hit harder when they come with those four little words: “based on true events.” That simple phrase transforms our fictional frights into something way more disturbing, knowing that some version of these nightmares actually happened. From weird paranormal stuff to brutal crimes, these real-world horrors have given filmmakers plenty of

Air travel can be a pain even on good days, but some flights go way beyond your typical inconvenience and nosedive straight into nightmare territory. From terrifying medical situations and stomach-churning turbulence to passengers from hell and mind-numbing delays, the so-called friendly skies can quickly turn into your own personal torture chamber. These real-life horror

Few horror films have seeped into our cultural nightmares quite like Poltergeist. This 1982 supernatural thriller about a suburban family tormented by angry spirits still gives people the creeps decades later. What many folks don’t realize is that the production itself was just as weird as what ended up on screen — some would say