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Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.

While mortality from starvation increased during the famine, nothing took so many lives as the Bubonic Plague. Warmer climates can cause rodent populations to explode, and this is most likely how ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Choosing a doctor is not simply a question of opening the phone book, closing your eyes and slamming a steak knife into the ...

As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow ...