Opinion
We’re Relearning What Pandemics Do to a Society
But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our global economy and politics are suffering their own form of long Covid, and we ...
WHO adds Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox to new pandemic watchlist
The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the ...
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13 Facts About the Black Death
The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...
Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...
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Early pandemics: the plague
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 ...
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Lessons Should Have Been Learned From Previous Pandemics
Global pandemics are not a new phenomenon, with one of the first documented being the Black Death in the 1300s and, in more recent history, the Spanish Flu of 1918. So why were we not fully ...
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Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia
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 ...