The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Christopher Lee, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, DACVM (Parasitology), argues for year-round isoxazoline use, noting that interrupting the flea life cycle protects both pets and people.

In a new study about the potential origins of the Black Death, scientists suggested that one or more volcanic eruptions that ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

The rapid spread of the Black Death through medieval Europe could have its origins in a massive volcanic eruption, according ...

The impact of climate change has only been scientifically investigated in around 6% of the 816 zoonotic diseases that affect humans. · The findings highlight the risk posed by ...

The 14th century in Europe was marked by a demographic upheaval of unprecedented scale with the Black Death. An ...

A sudden climate jolt disrupted harvests and trade, setting in motion the grain routes that helped carry plague into Europe.

In the American Southwest, rising temperatures mean that summer heat waves are more extreme than ever, which speeds up the ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...