Smithsonian Magazine7d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
The UK's ghost villages that vanished from the face of the earth for a horrid reason
The medieval period was one of social upheaval, and there is a list of villages, once part of local landscapes across the ...
The Cause of the Spanish Flu Was Paris? Song Dae-seop: “Spain is really being wronged”
The truth behind the Spanish flu has been revealed. On the KBS 11TV show 'Secrets of Celebrity Soldiers' aired on the 2th, ...
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How skeletons give us clues about ancient diseases still around today, such as leprosy
One fascinating chapter details how palaeogeneticists proved that the bubonic plague - the notorious Black Death that swept through Europe ... disease in a victim before it starts to manifest any ...
MedPage Today3dOpinion
Coming to You From the 'Department of Hallway Medicine'
Alexis Cordone, MD, MPH, MHS-MEd, is a board-certified emergency physician and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.
What to know about rising tuberculosis cases in the U.S.
TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is ...
Long-COVID patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments
Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Estimates vary, but the CDC puts it at 17 million adults.
The Island13d
Covid-19 Lockdown in Manila
Media vita inmorte sumus (Amid life, we are in death) by Jayantha Perera In the second week of March 202I, I returned from Colombo and Shyamala from New Delhi to Manila. We just learned about the ...
History TV11d
What was the worst year in history?
From there, the Black Death spread across an ill-prepared Europe causing fear ... Fever, vomiting and severe bleeding, along with the swelling of puss-filled boils, were just a few of the symptoms ...