Skin-eating scabies mites are on the rise across the UK, threatening entire schools and care homes, a leading expert on the ...
Medieval Europe was the perfect breeding ground for disease — overcrowded towns, open sewers, contaminated water, and no understanding of bacteria. People lived among filth, rats, and rotting waste, ...
A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...
The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval diseases and responses -- The Great Plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change: magic ...