The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the ...

This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long debate about the origins of the Black Death pandemic that arrived in Europe around 1347 CE. Knowing he’d have little chance of finding ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague ... The bubonic plague still exists in pockets of the world and has “potential for pandemic spread”, leading health experts believe.

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023 ...

While maternal deaths in the U.S. declined in 2023, Black women still died at more than three times the rate of white women ...

The Black Death killed as many as 50 million people ... has ‘potential for pandemic spread’ in the near future. Scientists at Porton Down’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory wrote ...

The plague, also called the Black Death, was a pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. Overall, it has caused three of the world's seven known pandemics and claimed an estimated 200 ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...