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The Week That Wasn’t in COVID-19: Centenarian Survives, High-Risk Blood Types

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 20, 2020 — This week the internet was inundated with coronavirus stories. Among many others, headlines cheered for a centenarian who survived the disease, and warned that COVID-19 might be a bigger problem for those with blood type A. Here’s why you didn’t see those stories on Medscape.… Read More: The Week That Wasn’t in COVID-19: Centenarian Survives, High-Risk Blood… »

Pet fish survives tumor-removal surgery, back to swimming

The Australian owners of a koi fish who underwent a 10-minute surgery last week to remove a potentially deadly tumor have posted a video interview featuring their scaled friend happily swimming with the other fish back in his pond. The fish, named “Bubbles,” is believed to be between 5 and 8 years old, and started… Read More: Pet fish survives tumor-removal surgery, back to swimming »

'Miracle' six-day-old baby survives Ebola

A baby girl who was diagnosed with Ebola when she was only six days old has survived, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have confirmed. Baby Benedicte’s mother was infected with Ebola and died during childbirth. Benedicte showed symptoms only days later and it has taken five weeks of round-the-clock treatment to… Read More: 'Miracle' six-day-old baby survives Ebola »