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 ...
Plague, and the infamous Black Death, spread quickly for centuries, killing millions. Plague still occurs but can be treated ...
Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, and Europe. After that, in the 14th century, ...
It's been dubbed "the forgotten pandemic" — possibly because it coincided with some of the most momentous events in world ...
Editor's Note, March 17, 2020: This is an updated version of a story that originally ran on Jan. 11, 2018. Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too.
Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” You may remember that a pandemic began ...
From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...
Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics were decades apart but shared many lessons. Among the lessons for clinicians are ...
The world is on the verge of Disease X pandemic outbreak. Yes, the sound of it may pass as the stuff that can only be found in science-fiction blockbuster movies or bestseller novels. It also has the ...
Singapore Airlines Ltd said on Thursday it would cut 4,300 positions, or around 20% of its staff, due to the debilitating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on demand in the largest job losses in its ...