A former employee at Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink alleged that a monkey infected with the Herpes B virus scratched her and that she was fired after informing her superiors that she was pregnant, according to a lawsuit. Lindsay Short, who started working at Neuralink as an animal care specialist in August 2022, accused […]
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Former Neuralink Staffer Sues After Scratches From Herpes Monkey
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink Corp. forced an employee to work with monkeys that carried the Herpes B virus in conditions in which the animals scratched her bare skin, according to a complaint filed Friday in state court in California. Most Read from Bloomberg The employee, Lindsay Short, said that once she transferred […]
Halle Berry Recalled Her Doctor Mistakenly Telling Her She Had The “Worst Case Of Herpes” When She Was Actually Experiencing Perimenopause Symptoms
undefined Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty Images For those who don’t know, perimenopause refers to the time that the body naturally transitions into menopause. Board-certified OB-GYN Dr Mary Claire Haver last year, “Perimenopause is when you begin to notice some of the symptoms when your body is starting to register that something’s changing in your hormonal […]
Flaco, owl whose death shocked NYC, had evidence of bird herpes and rat poison
Flaco, the owl who endeared himself to New Yorkers in sightings around Manhattan, had underlying conditions consistent with urban wildlife when he died last month, zoo officials said. Flaco was roughly 13 years old when he was found dead Feb. 23 in the courtyard of an apartment building in New York City’s Upper West Side, […]
The 6 best herpes test kits for 2024
During routine in-office sexually transmitted infection (STI) panels, herpes is not typically included in the screening unless requested or your doctor has reason to believe you have herpes (evidence of an outbreak). That’s despite some staggering numbers suggesting just how prevalent this infection is: In the U.S., more than half the population between the ages […]