Scientists traced the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, to the Andes and discovered it belongs to a much ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...

A recent hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship, which has reportedly caused multiple deaths and affected over a hundred passengers, is once again drawing attention to a long-standing but ...