The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the ...

In 1347, the Black Death first arrived in the Mediterranean ... This devastating wave marked the beginning of a 500-year-long ...

COVID 19 was not the first, nor will it be the last. The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of ...

This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long debate about the origins of the Black Death pandemic that arrived in Europe around 1347 CE. Knowing he’d have little chance of finding ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023 ...

Using DNA extracted from teeth of people who died before, during and during the Black Death pandemic, researchers were able to identify genetic differences that dictated who survived and who died ...

January 1900: Australia’s first case of bubonic plague reported. Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to ...

“This discovery is a hugely important step forward in documenting and understanding Europe’s most devastating pandemic,” he added ... said in a statement. The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 ...

While maternal deaths in the U.S. declined in 2023, Black women still died at more than three times the rate of white w ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Rochester and Columbia University analyzed rates of long-term nursing home residence and death among 1,468,754 US community-dwelling patients aged 65 ...