New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years, new research said ...

A fresh new debut from a filmmaker who has real talent. One of the best first films at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is titled The Plague, an American indie thriller made by filmmaker Charlie ...

How ‘The Plague’ Director Charlie Polinger Used the Horror Genre to Capture the ‘Chaos and Anxiety’ of Male Adolescence | Video Cannes 2025: Polinger’s feature directorial debut finally ...

It was, says 48-year-old Andrea Dowden, 'one of the worst experiences of my life'. The raised, red scabs, which seemed to appear overnight, covered the mother-of-two's body.

A PLAGUE of tiny parasites that can travel with the wind has invaded parts of the US after a historic insect emergence. This April, trillions of cicadas – an insect that can grow as large as … ...