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Her name was Mary Quarantine Chapman. Seriously. To the best of my knowledge, Mary is the only Australian named after the experience of being detained to limit the spread of infectious disease.
Jun 23, 2026
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A deadly outbreak on a cruise liner is just the latest in a long history of infectious diseases spreading rapidly in the cramped confines of ships, from the Black Death to COVID.
May 14, 2026
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Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing ...
May 12, 2026
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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 out ...
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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