When cholera ravaged Hamburg in 1892, politics — not science — drove the response. Over a century later, as we confront ...

If the disease spreads just beyond that community—like how the novel coronavirus spread across China—then it becomes an epidemic. Pandemics, according to their classical definition ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Today, the sad old pump in Shoreditch has lost its handle, had its nozzle broken and even its basin is filled with concrete, yet a lone primrose flowers – emblematic of the mystic quality that some ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...