Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

The worst plague in history was the Black Death ... They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has ...

Changes were also seen in the size of dishware. Large plates had been popular before the smallpox plague, but afterward they were increasingly replaced by smaller ones, Jinno said. In response to ...

It does little good: in the coming months, about 10,000 people in Rome succumb to plague. During a smallpox epidemic in New York City, the General Assembly passes a law forbidding people coming ...

Plague mortality, with 28,169 deaths, was appreciably higher than in 1936, but deaths due to cholera and smallpox, 99,054 and 54,810 respectively, showed large decreases, so that there was a total ...

Here’s a look back at some of them. Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, which spreads through skin-to-skin contact or contact with bodily fluids. It can also be spread through the air.

Picture ancient cities where the wail of mourners filled the streets and mighty empires crumbled, not from historic battlefields that one can still visit but from invisible enemies that knew no ...

As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a ...

Using smallpox as a weapon was not unprecedented ... cholera, typhoid, and plague. As many as 10,000 people were killed. In active military campaigns, several hundred thousand people—mostly ...