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Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new research has revealed.
Dec 5, 2025
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The plague—aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence—is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century "air-purifying" beaked mask, let's find ...
Aug 25, 2025
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A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has been diagnosed with the plague, the state's first human plague infection since 2020.
Aug 21, 2025
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Researchers from the U.K. and Madagascar, in collaboration with Madagascar's health services and national plague program, have conducted the world's first rigorous clinical trial of treatments for bubonic plague.
Aug 7, 2025
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A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday.
Jul 12, 2025
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform developed for COVID-19 vaccines to create the world's first mRNA-based vaccine against a deadly, antibiotic-resistant ...
Jul 9, 2025
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Socioeconomic factors may be a driving force behind the emergence and spread of animal-borne disease outbreaks, according to new research from the University of Georgia and Oklahoma State University.
Jun 2, 2025
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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 Thursday.
May 29, 2025
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Do you clearly remember the choices you made a few years ago during the early days of the COVID pandemic? Did you painstakingly wipe down your groceries before putting them away, quarantine your mail three days before opening ...
Mar 11, 2025
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Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of the disease, for instance, ...
Mar 10, 2025
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