Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The creatures lived in a farming community that existed in Europe during the Bronze Age ...

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But it’s clear the pandemic killed more people in a year than AIDS has killed in 40 years, more than the bubonic plague killed in ... to develop a “universal vaccine” that confers immunity ...

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On 20 July, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gave a speech to the Economic and Social Outlook Conference, in which his understanding of the history of technology provided the foundation for his vision ...

Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who is credited with saving the city from many disasters throughout the centuries—including the bubonic plague in 1643—the basilica ... for his discoveries in the realms ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...

ALONG WITH FOUR PIGS. WELL, NEW MEXICO HAS ITS FIRST REPORTED CASE OF THE ANIMAL PLAGUE THIS YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTING A DOG LIVING IN SANTA FE COUNTY, WAS DIAGNOSED AND HAS SINCE ...

Early last Friday morning, Kanehsata’kehró:non Celyne Gaspé was lying awake in bed when she heard what she thought was freezing rain tick-tick-ticking outside her window. But when she got up ...

A measles outbreak involving hundreds of people across the country has put a spotlight on the role of vaccines in treating preventable diseases—especially as childhood vaccination rates have ...