Today, in the final episode of the Past Pandemics series, we're talking about the Plague of Justinian, the first occurrence ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

But with the firestorm of COVID-19, an actual plague has emptied out the Piazza San Marco, St. Mark’s Basilica, the Doge’s Palace and other attractions in a city of gilded domes and lapping ...

This experiment utilizes the SEIRD model, an extension of the classical SEIR model, encompassing five state variables: Susceptible (S), Exposed (E), Infected (I), Recovered (R), and Deceased (D). The ...