The Trump administration is expected to issue an order labeling migrants as a public health risk to Americans. According to ...

A vaccine for the bubonic plague is currently in development as the potential risk of a pandemic remains.

International researchers warn that the ongoing mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to spread across borders more rapidly. The mpox virus has mutated, and the ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

New research has found that the plague may actually have caused milder outbreaks in the Middle East a century before it ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The Black Death is a disease I am sure most of us have heard of, with its bursting pustules, rats, and overwhelming death ...

The start of the academic year is notoriously chaotic for students in South Africa, as thousands of young people flock to universities across the country, facing numerous challenges that can make ...

It's as if they want people to get sick and die, the way they are waging war on anyone who would interfere with the transmission of disease. This new affection Republicans have for infectious ...

Background: The transmission potential of primary pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is one of the key epidemiological determinants of a potential biological weapon, and requires ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...