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 ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

West Virginia's governor says his administration will improve transparency and policies within the state’s embattled foster ...

Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Accordingly, young adulthood can be viewed as a window of opportunity for early intervention, which could ...

Meghan Talbott’s two late sons, Jackson (left) and Lucas, before both passed away in separate incidents, part of a rising trend of youth suicide. (Photo courtesy of Meghan Talbott) I hope that you ...

“Another epidemic in Santa Barbara County is not merely a possibility — it is an inevitability” is the opening line in a Grand Jury report asking if the Public Health Department was ready for the next ...

The Veterans of Foreign Wars: Henderson-Marino Post 1819 has selected John Rosario Sabatino as grand marshal of the 2025 Port Washington Memorial Day Parade. The parade will begin at 10 a.m ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former President Joe Biden’s office says he has ...