A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked...
Disease
How did Yersinia pestis bacteria start to target the lungs and become so deadly? National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
The earliest hominin cancer. Patrick Randolph-Quinney (University of Central Lancashire/University of the Witwatersrand) Cancer is not the modern disease...
Teeth fossils with evidence of dental lesions from Australopithecus africanus. Ian Towle, Author provided Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different...
What will it take to finish polio off in the last three countries where it persists? AP Photo/B.K....
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB...
Nurse B.K. Morris gives a flu shot to Winifred Quinn during a press event on the flu...
    By (left-to-right) Dr. Gerardo Chowell, Dr. Cecile Viboud, and Dr. Lone Simonsen / 03.05.2018 Chowell: Professor...
Children at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a plague outbreak, Oct. 3, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander Joe By...
Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest...
Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...
Photo from Max Pixel By Dolly Stolze / 10.31.2017 For me, zombies are probably the scariest of the...
Bride and groom, 1900-1910. wikimedia By Rob Knell Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology Queen Mary University of...