15.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.6K upvotes, which works out to 224 per 1,000 members.
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The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Found some old medicine in a river!
Which disease has killed the most people in human history? A look at the toll of our deadliest microbial companions.
Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey
What are the oldest diseases we can actually prove existed?
The Mystery of Hookworm in Ancient South America
Is there any way to possibly reverse engineer, a balm my father has that is so coveted in my household for small cut infections, we have had the same…
What we can learn from fossilized poop
Venice & the Forty Day Quarantine
Inherited Infections: What Our Oldest Diseases Reveal About Human Prehistory
The Origins of Syphilis Debate.
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/historyofmedicine, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.