Weiss RA, McMichael AJ. Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Nat Med. 2004;10(suppl):S70-S76. The study authors review the history of infectious diseases with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Professor Harper is a historian of the ancient world whose ...

Detailed studies of ancient DNA have provided important insights into the origins and history of infectious diseases. These studies have bettered the understanding of past human disease manifestations ...

When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the most attention: cancer, COVID-19, heart disease and diabetes. But a ...

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...

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The key to better understanding the spread of infectious diseases may lie where the humanities and the health sciences meet. It’s a theme that a group of Virginia Tech faculty is exploring to develop ...

These pandemic milestones come after three demoralizing years of disease spikes, then quiet periods, then more spikes, eventually causing 1.1 million deaths in the United States and almost 7 million ...

There's bubonic plague in Colorado. Avian flu is in Michigan and Texas. Measles has been detected in 17 states. And if you're traveling this summer, watch out for dengue fever, not to mention malaria.