The threats of vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted to humans by other organisms like mosquitoes or ticks, are being exacerbated by climate change. To put this in perspective, by 2080 ...

Past epidemics may offer some insight into what ... less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633 ...

Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced ...

Goffman and Newill 1 have directed attention to the analogy between the spreading of an infectious disease and the dissemination ... of the formal analogy with epidemics.

pandemic major infectious diseases and epidemics have devastating impacts on human lives, wreaking havoc on long-term social and economic development. Global health crises threaten to overwhelm ...

Looking back at the flu epidemic, what do students think should have been done to try to control the disease’s spread ... encourage questions. For example: How will strategies be implemented?

Dozens of people have been killed by a previously unkown disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Days after the news ...

In Germany, for example, there are clear penalties ... It's a symptom of a broader disease - the collapse of democratic and ...

Congo’s health minister says the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people ...