No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe pnas.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pnas.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
EPIDEMICS IN CHINA AND HAWAIʻIPast, Future, and PresentfeaturingDr. Shana BrownChair, History DepartmentUniversity of Hawaiʻi at MānoaNot too long ago, a highly infectious airborne disease emerged in several locations around the world, including China and Hawai’i, and changed public health practices in significant ways. This lecture explores the lessons of the Third Plague
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If you have the slightest curiosity about the millions of species with which we share the planet, Simon Barnes’s delightful new book will satisfy and whet it in equal measure. Picking out a hundred from these millions (a selection that ranges from gorillas to earthworms), Barnes provides a crisp, evocative history of each creature – and even better, of humanity’s relationship to it: real and symbolic.
Lions, for instance, have been part of human life from the dawn of our species, he writes, drawing evocatively on a pair of footprints from Tanzania’s Laetoli Gorge, possibly made by some adult hominid parent escorting a child to safety some 3.6 million years ago.
The Story of the Black Death in Norway
February 10, 2021 by Andrew McKayHome » History Blog » The Story of the Black Death in Norway
The story of how Europe’s deadliest plague pandemic influenced Norway for centuries.
2020 and perhaps 2021 will forever be known as the years of the coronavirus. But it won’t be the last and certainly wasn’t the first health crisis to hit humanity.
There was the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Despite medical advances and improved knowledge, there are an estimated 38 million people around the world living with the infection today.
Before that, the so-called Spanish flu infected an estimated one-third of the world’s population, killing millions, from 1918 to 1920. But humanity’s greatest struggle began its life many hundreds of years earlier.