On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The decade from 536 to 546 AD was only the beginning: in fact, there were Other volcanic eruptions In 540 and 547 that a very serious situation already went to worsen, which in addition to the drastic ...

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 ...

Native to Australia, plague skinks were first recorded in Auckland during the 1960s and are now posing a threat to our rare native lizards. The plague skink (Lampropholis delicata) is sometimes known ...

From the Justinian Plague to the Great Depression, the Great Recession and Covid-19 — it is obvious that there is always a chance that some unforeseen event can upend the normal workings of the ...

It created the ideal conditions for the ‘Justinian’ bubonic plague, the first plague pandemic, to spread across the Mediterranean leading to an estimated 25-50 million deaths, between 35-55% of the ...

In 542, the Emperor Justinian ordered that it be observed at Constantinople as an act of thanksgiving for the ending of the plague in that city and from there it spread throughout the East. Candlemas ...

A man stands amid the rubble of a building in the aftermath of the Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2023. —... How to help the people. The News/FileThe drastic ...

The topic and treatment of contagious disease has become controversial since COVID-19 came along, but what is not ...