A measles outbreak is causing major concern in a Washington county where only 22 percent of children...
Disease
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...
A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked...
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...