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Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Is that crusty cold sore on your lip making you feel ghastly? Or maybe the odd discoloured fingernail is giving you a monstrous look? In the dark, winter months, our bodies can throw up a whole host o

We love worms – but it’s true that they don’t do well when they’re indoors

The arms race between antibiotics and bacteria

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich