Pneumonia remains an evolving public health challenge shaped by antimicrobial resistance, emerging pathogens, and global disparities in...
Disease
The whooping cough surge sweeping Texas, Louisiana, West Virginia, and other states is a predictable outcome of...
The history of nineteenth century pandemics reveals how deeply infectious disease shaped the development of modern public...
Across all available reporting, Ethiopia’s Marburg outbreak represents both a serious public health emergency and a demonstration...
From the first shocking outbreaks in 1976 to the massive epidemic that swept through West Africa four...
By narrowing eligibility, softening guidance, and shifting responsibility onto patients, the agency has turned public health into...
In the case of abandoning mRNA vaccine research, it may lead to lives needlessly lost, whether due...
Attempts to weaponize plague in the medieval world reveal both tactical desperation and cultural anxiety. They demonstrate...
Undergirding the heightened scrutiny was a call for Kennedy’s resignation from more than 20 medical societies and...
How protection of citizens from health threats came to be a public responsibility and the public health...
It shook assumptions, invited new models, and reminded early sixteenth-century Europeans that life itself (breath, motion, sound)...
It would not be until the nineteenth century that germ theory redefined infection as microbial invasion. Yet...
To historicize vaccine resistance is not to legitimize it but instead to understand its roots. From the...
The Spanish did not simply impose their will upon a static world. They disrupted a delicate ecological...
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...