This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Infectious diseases have plagued humankind throughout ...

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 ...

Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, and Europe. After that, in the 14th century, ...

Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world about his latest book, ...

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.” You may remember that a pandemic began ...

As the U.S. surpass 675,000 COVID-19 deaths, we look back at the 1918 pandemic. Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics were decades apart but shared many lessons. Among the lessons for clinicians are ...

Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...

For Shawn Rocco, the massive tents outside of Duke University Hospital to screen employees and patients in March 2020 were the first sign that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to be something unlike ...

Researchers at UZH have studied the impact of pandemics on the birth rate in Switzerland for the first time. While the number of births unexpectedly rose initially during COVID-19, it fell ...

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