"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in Rome around 541 and continued to erupt for the next couple hundred years. The third major plague pandemic started in the ...
In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s, as there are records of a similar disease in Rome in 146AD, known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were ...
In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...