The Spanish did not simply impose their will upon a static world. They disrupted a delicate ecological...
Disease
To prevent catching the plague, the WHO recommends taking precautions against flea bites and avoiding handling animal...
To understand this plague is not to isolate a pathogen but to examine a system – of...
The moment we believe the war is won, the pathogens remind us that it never truly ends;...
It remains one of modernity’s unsolved puzzles, a sleep from which, perhaps, medical history itself has yet...
The sound of pertussis, that strangled gasp for air, is the voice of a disease we were...
The Nile River’s bounty slowly poisoned millions over centuries. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction The phrase...
History also warns us: what we neglect, we risk reliving. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction After...
How deeply human understanding of illness is shaped by cultural frameworks. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
Measles suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years. By Dr. Saloni DattaniResearcher, Our...
Its legacy endures in the study of psychosomatic disorders. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction In the...
This latest outbreak joins a growing pattern of travel-related infections in recent years. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic...
Despite the demographic and cultural devastation, indigenous peoples across the Americas survived and adapted. By Matthew A....
His work transformed vaccine science into a rigorous and systematic discipline. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
Cancer in the ancient and medieval worlds was a poorly understood and highly feared disease. By Matthew...
The subject of looking and staring has engaged theorists of visual culture for some decades. Introduction Vision...
Preventing a pandemic isn’t something the government can do alone. By Jeff SobotkoSenior WriterHarvard T.H. Chan School...
One dose of the vaccine reduces the chances of getting sick with measles by around 95%. By...
Key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today. By Amber DanceScience Journalist Introduction In...
In 1858, physician Tomás Salazar pioneered the study of the disease. By Dr. José Ignacio MogrovejoPontificia Universidad...
Political polarisation– has propelled an irrational wave of denialism. By Dr. Ignacio López-GoñiProfessor of MicrobiologyUniversidad de Navarra...
Alice Ball’s legacy and her contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease. Introduction...
Kennedy has a long history of anti-vaccine views. By Barbara RodriguezInterim Health and Caregiving ReporterThe 19th News...
Pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. By Dr. Ron BarrettProfessor of AnthropologyMacalester College...
The AIDS crisis could not be separated from the broader cultural contexts in which it emerged. By...
The freeze is a reminder of how the first Trump administration interfered. By Amy MaxmenPublic Health and...
Influenza left its devastating mark in both American and world history that year. By Sara Francis FujimuraAuthor...
The virus mutates slightly in a process called antigenic drift. By Dr. Alexandra M. LordChair and Curator...
A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1. By Sarah BodenHealth and...
For rural patients, getting cancer treatment close to home has always been difficult. The night before her...