On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

Alexis Cordone, MD, MPH, MHS-MEd, is a board-certified emergency physician and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is ...

Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Estimates vary, but the CDC puts it at 17 million adults.

Media vita inmorte sumus (Amid life, we are in death) by Jayantha Perera In the second week of March 202I, I returned from Colombo and Shyamala from New Delhi to Manila. We just learned about the ...

One fascinating chapter details how palaeogeneticists proved that the bubonic plague - the notorious Black Death that swept through Europe ... disease in a victim before it starts to manifest any ...

Arguably any one of the years between 1347-1349 could make this list as the infamous 'Black Death' bubonic plague was at its peak ... were just a few of the symptoms victims had to endure before ...

"As a people's fears change, so too does its horror": in light of the release of 'Nosferatu' (2024), Shade Bannigan-Davis analyses the increasing relevance of vampire stories in our post-pandemic ...

In a study led by scientists from Tel Aviv University, researchers have confirmed that the same scuticociliate parasite responsible for past Caribbean die-offs is now wiping out sea urchins in the Red ...