Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has created what feels like an unprecedented situation in the District: Schools are...
Disease
Incidents of polio increased to epidemic proportions after 1900. What was going on? Introduction Poliomyelitis (polio) is...
Using distance to avoid getting sick has deep evolutionary roots for humans and many other species. Social...
The plague, named the Black Death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the European population...
With no accurate knowledge about the disease and the way it was spread, what could be done...
The first definitive outbreak of plague was the Plague of Justinian as recorded by Procopius which killed...
The global spread of smallpox can be traced to the growth and spread of civilizations, exploration, and...
The parasites found within the 2,000-year-old-feces smeared on bamboo suggest more than commodities made the trip. By...
Stomach ulcers, herpes, ringworm and other tropical diseases may have all contributed to the Neanderthal demise. By...
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphed. Not malaria. Not cholera. Not AIDS, influenza, measles, or...
Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents....
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World...
Looking at quarantine use — and abuse — over the ages. China is building a quarantine center...
The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which was seen as the cause of...
Medieval society was compelled to adapt to the presence of the chronically ill. Conventional narratives tell us...
The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
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...
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
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...