Scientists have successfully revived the genome of the Spanish Flu that struck the world in 1918. This was thought impossible since the lung it was decoded from had been preserved in a substance that ...

When the 1925 Serum Run to Nome is recalled, they almost always think of sled dogs cutting across frozen Alaskan wilderness, ...

It's a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives: Why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico? Investigators also want to know why the disease has killed young ...

And now, on this cold morning of November 23 came a letter that would put on yet another burden, that of an informal diplomat and host. It came from Henry Laurens, South Carolina plantation owner and ...

Health professional publications have proved to be a valuable source of historical research. This study analyses the journalistic life of El Practicante Oscense, the bulletin of the Official College ...

Led by Dr. Verena Schünemann, the study combines archaeogenetics, historical pathology, and modern virology to understand not just the virus’s genetic structure, but how it was already changing in the ...