In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have traced the deadly bacterium behind the world’s earliest recorded pandemic to its epicentre for the first time. The Justinian Plague, which devastated ...

memory is of a headline. What followed was panic, disruption and mass death. Covid may feel as if it’s behind us. But we’re living in the branch of history it created. And its contours are only now ...

It's been dubbed "the forgotten pandemic" — possibly because it coincided with some of the most momentous events in world history. But Dr John Gerrard argues variants of the H3N2 flu, which led to the ...

A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...

History is written by the victors, but what happens when the victors want to erase their own record? That’s the question that ...

Scientists have solved a 1,500-year-old medical mystery—revealing the cause of the "Plague of Justinian" the outbreak that began the world's first known pandemic. Researchers found direct genomic ...

A coalition of curators is working to ensure accurate, diverse historical record As COVID-19 and civil unrest over police brutality land a double punch in communities nationwide, an informal coalition ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics were decades apart but shared many lessons. Among the lessons for clinicians are ...