Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected livestock, not just humans. During the Middle Ages, a devastating outbreak of ...

When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

Preventive care is an essential part of public health. Vaccines are one of the major successes in public health, saving ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Check out the Announcement Trailer for Plague Doctor: Life in Pestilence, a medieval medical simulation game developed by PST Games. Players will evolve into a reputable doctor as the plague spreads ...

Over the last 62 years, Doctor Who has celebrated seven of its biggest anniversaries with special episodes, but some of these have been far stronger, more entertaining, and more transformative for the ...

Shogun Films has released the first trailer for their upcoming serial killer movie Doctor Plague, which is getting a digital release in January. The film is led by Martin Kemp (The Krays) and Jeanine ...

Exclusive: Charlie Polinger's first feature premiered at Cannes and stars Joel Edgerton as the head of a water polo camp made up of boys wreaking havoc upon each other. Adolescence, and especially at ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s strangest outbreaks. Around 400 people danced for days without rest in ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used as protection against disease ...

The words epidemic and pandemic are Greek in origin, and they point to the fact that the Greeks of antiquity thought a lot about disease, both in its purely medical sense, and as a metaphor for the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A piper of the Clan McLeod in 18th century Scotland, Jamie McCrimmon became the Second Doctor’s ...