Vaccination has protected humans from an ever-lengthening list of infectious diseases: polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, ...

What was hygiene like during the Black Death? In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through Europe, wiping out as ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

Bubonic plague Sydney: How a city survived the black death in 1900 IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed.

T he Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

Following the global pandemic of COVID-19 and millions under lockdown across the world, we felt it necessary to tell the ...

Rats and rodents pose significant health risks beyond mere annoyance, transmitting potentially fatal diseases like hantavirus ...

The United States recently charged two Chinese nationals for allegedly smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the country for research purposes. Federal authorities charged that the pathogen ...

Mathematical models suggested how this might have played out in human populations centuries ago, leading to an “epidemic burnout” about 100 years after a bubonic plague outbreak. In a pandemic’s early ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...