They were also frightened because the disease was very painful and it affected rich and poor people alike. Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague.

It quickly spread to the Native American population, which had up until now been free of this communicable disease. It’s unclear how many were killed by smallpox, though historians estimate some ...

Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...

The acceptance of tuberculosis as a contagion had a huge impact on American society ... nature of tuberculosis and several other diseases, vendors needed to find a different way of serving ...

particularly the uncontrollable shaking similar to the “Dancing Plague” of 1518 There is no definitive cure for Dinga Dinga and medical treatment focuses on alleviating symptoms The disease is ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...

Caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or broken skin. It’s best known as being the cause of ...