When the city of Paris declared a war on rats to combat the third bubonic plague pandemic, Fanny Clar protested violence against animals and...
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In 1815 the Tambora, in Indonesia, erupted with the most powerful volcanic eruption in historic times. Around 1820 advancing glaciers in the...
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A team at the University of Oslo said humans were the real culprits behind a plague outbreak in Glasgow 120 years ago.
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Plague is an infection caused by an extremely virulent bacterium, Yersinia pestis, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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On May 27, 1907, a bubonic plague outbreak struck San Francisco. New scientific discoveries combined with lessons learned from an earlier...
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As the world continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, the onslaught of new developments, disrupted routines, and fast-evolving medical...
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Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them?
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From the time of the pharaohs to the present day, epidemics of diseases like the bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, and smallpox have had a cataclysmic impact...
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Outbreaks of disease have had a profound effect on human existence. From the time of the pharaohs to the present day, epidemics of diseases...
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Dr Miguel Caetano Dias and Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas had a lot in common, not least their zealous effort to save lives during the Bubonic...
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