A look at major Ebola outbreaks and when the disease was first identified

African health officials say there is a new outbreak of the Ebola disease in the Central African country of Congo, with at ...

‘W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause’ Review: A Hagiography With Hard Facts on PBS

This ‘American Masters’ production is never less than laudatory about the intellectual and activist, but doesn’t avoid the ...

The Black Death: a ‘horribly compelling’ global history of the plague

Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...

Neo-Nazi leader gets 15 years for recruiting violent attacks, including a Santa poison plot

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities.

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story

From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...
Opinion

Haemorrhagic Plague?

The pneumonic symptoms of the two diseases could be similar (albeit more blue than black). Indeed the 1918 influenza pandemic was known, at least in New Zealand, as the Black Flu. Plague is bacterial ...