Journalist Mark Honigsbaum has updated his book Pandemic Century to include a new chapter on the pandemic that plunged the world into chaos shortly after his first edition was published last year.

For half a century, this tiny island’s toxic past meant it was declared off limits by its country’s government.

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest ...

The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

This is an article about protest in medieval England in the fourteenth and early fifteenth century. It was a period of plague ...

The historical record shows that the battle to prevent and find cures for infectious disease will lead to a lower incidence of chronic, disabling diseases. At the same time, efforts to find ...

No one is a villain, everyone is flawed,' says Downton Abbey star of Chekhov's classic tragicomedy at Berkeley Rep.

But the event was postponed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Tamura is now waiting for a chance to reopen the theater at least one more time. Local residents opened the theater in 1914 ...

Some of the problems, however, that motivate populists aren’t problems at all, and populist anger is rooted in something else ...

During the first years of the COVID pandemic, elevated precautions mostly suppressed the perennial flu outbreaks that ...

Diphtheria is an airborne disease that causes a thick, suffocating film to develop at the back of the ... western Alaska’s largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago. Its most recent ...