La Pulga is the nickname of Lionel Messi, a player who developed into a famous, worldwide legend of futbol or soccer! Many ...

To stop the spread of infectious diseases, governments need information and other resources that countries around the globe ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages, infected man bitten by stray cat. Health officials have confirmed that an Oregon man has the plague after he was bitten ...

According to the study, the grave predates the Black Death burial pits from medieval Europe by approximately 800 years.

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has revived fears of rodent-borne diseases. From the Black Death to modern outbreaks, here's how such infections have shaped human history, and why they still ...

Three people have died and several others are ill as health officials investigate the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius.

A Dutch cruise ship with nearly 150 people aboard, including 17 Americans, was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after a suspected outbreak of the rare ...

You’re probably familiar on some level with plague, the terrifying illness that killed more than a third of the population of Europe in the Middle Ages. The Black Death, or bubonic plague, was the ...

Lord Mandelson has called Jeffrey Epstein a “master manipulator” following the release of historic emails and documents that link the former Labour MP to the disgraced paedophile. The disgraced Labour ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Across four very different stories—Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and distrust, and the promise of ...