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What the Black Death’s Labor Shortage Can Tell Us About Our Own
It turns out, the Black Death and the COVID-19 pandemic have something in common: workers wanting more from their bosses.
China Is Warning About a Possible Bubonic Plague Outbreak Because That's How 2020 Is Going
Cool, cool, it's not like we had enough to worry about already.
Ancient Skeletons Might Explain One of Humanity's Worst Epidemics
After stumbling on a mass burial site, "paleopathologists" use ancient DNA to tackle a 400-year-old mystery.
Scientists Recreated One of Our Deadliest Plagues to Understand Its Evolution
The bacterium behind the Black Death and Justinian's Plague comes back to life.
Here’s Where Animal Diseases Are Jumping into Humans
Ebola, Zika, SARS, and Lyme disease are just a few of the nearly 1,000 zoonoses that pose a risk to humans.
The Dark Ages Were Caused By Two Enormous Volcanic Eruptions
“The sun gave forth its light without brightness.”
Drinking the Black Death in Iceland
Iceland's spirit, Brennivín, aka the "Black Death" is a beverage that has never been exported out of the country. One man, however, has found a way to import it into the US so that Americans can sip on the schnapps that tastes more like licorice than...
The Black Plague Is Spreading in Madagascar
The disease was once confined to rural villages but has now spread to the impoverished nation's capital.
The Return of the Black Death
We went to Madagascar in the fall of 2013 because the village of Beranimbo had been an epicenter of a black plague outbreak that resulted in nearly 600 cases and more than 90 deaths across the country.
The Return of the Black Death
We went to Madagascar in the fall of 2013 because the village of Beranimbo had been an epicenter of a black plague outbreak that resulted in nearly 600 cases and more than 90 deaths across the country. Madagascar reports the most instances of the...