SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to an ...

Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

Do you know that during the Black Death, which was one of the worst pandemics in history, some people believed that the disease was caused by "bad air" or "miasma?" This belief led to the use of ...

There’s no point mincing words here: The covid-19 pandemic sucked. And more than 4½ years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus triggered the worst pandemic since the 1918 flu, we are still, as a society, ...

Between 1347 and 1353 AD, the Black Death — a bubonic plague pandemic — moved across Europe, killing upwards of 50 million people, or an estimated 50 per cent of Europe’s 14th-century population. To ...

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the ...

The new book "The Big One" describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the dangers of future outbreaks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...