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 ...

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

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic is nowhere near as deadly as the Black Death, which killed millions of people across Europe. Nonetheless, it was a historic disruption to everyday life ...

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 ...