The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
Disease
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
A challenge in eradicating polio comes from a version of the vaccine itself, which relies on live...
The armamentarium of vaccines continues to grow with more emphasis on safety, availability, and accessibility. Abstract Multiple...
Measles cases have spiked as a growing number of anti-vaxxers, opting out of immunizations for their kids,...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
The measles outbreak traced back to Disneyland has spread to eight states, with as many as 95...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
A measles outbreak is causing major concern in a Washington county where only 22 percent of children...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
The spread of yellow fever was a result of complex ecological and demographic changes produced by the...
Recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that the yellow fever virus is approximately 1,500 years old. In many environmental...
The diagnosis: a skeletal doctor measures a patient’s pulse, L. Crusius / Wellcome Collection, Creative commons Texts that...
From hunting rare bugs to harvesting the world’s most expensive plant parts, conservator Cheryl Porter will try...
Books, music, artworks and memorials help ensure that victims of pandemics are remembered. But while the Black...
As Indians began to rebel against colonial rule, the British accused them of spreading cholera, little imagining...
A healthy-seeming cook gained unwelcome notoriety as Typhoid Mary, unwittingly spreading disease to co-workers and employers. Ultimately,...
A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Venus’s bathing. (Margate). Side way or any way., Thomas Rowlandson / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Fashionable seaside towns...
In the 1850s, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain. But the influence of anti-vaccination campaigners meant outbreaks...
A combination of poverty and “plague orders” in 1665 trapped many in situations that meant almost certain...
Everett Historical / Shutterstock The 1918 pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” or the “Spanish Lady.” By...
The fear of prostitution and female promiscuity peaked during World War I. By Laura Lammasniemi / 07.28.2016 Teaching...
Aedes aegypti Diseases are entangled with the human-made world, and to reduce diseases to their nonhuman aspects is...
The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...
An extinct strain of the human Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been discovered in Bronze Age human...