Learn how DNA from teeth found at a mass grave unraveled the mystery of the world's first plague pandemic. Long before COVID-19 swept over the globe, the Plague of Justinian gave rise to widespread ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian ...

Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” See more of our coverage in your ...

Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as Covid-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. We took a closer look at the world's worst infections ...

Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

The Black Death is often remembered as a single catastrophic event that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Yet the disease did not disappear after that first devastating ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, may have prolonged the duration of ...

In coronavirus, we have discovered a memory-resistant strain of pandemics. March 6, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. ESTToday at 7:45 a.m. EST Warning: This graphic requires ...

Blumenthal and Morone are the authors of “Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science.” Pandemics like the great influenza of 1918-1919 and Covid-19 are often viewed and treated as ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...