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, ...

Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day. Reading time 3 minutes Death and illness have never been ...

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 ...

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Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...

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 ...

A red squirrel eating a hazlenut Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve in Sandown, England. (Credit: Peter Trimming, CC by 2.0 Generic) (CN) — The history of leprosy has been rewritten, thanks to a study ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...