Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

Plagues and epidemics in anthropological perspective / D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlung -- Ecosyndemics : global warming and the coming plagues of the twenty-first century / Merrill Singer -- ...

Local historian Derby Gisclair will talk about “Epidemics That Shaped New Orleans” at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. Gisclair says that the city is ...

NEW YORK — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be ...

To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata reported earlier this year ...