If I bring up anything even slightly uncomfortable he either shuts down, changes the subject or tries to make a joke out of ...

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

Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus ...

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

For centuries, the origin of the so-called Justinianic Plague—the epidemic that ravaged the Mediterranean world in the sixth ...