Medieval Europe was the perfect breeding ground for disease — overcrowded towns, open sewers, contaminated water, and no ...

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th ...

The earliest description of cancer is from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, and going back further, even dinosaurs suffered a form of the disease. But cancer long has been thought to have become a common ...

A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man. A new genetic analysis of bony nodules found in a 700-year-old skeleton from Italy reveal that the man had ...

Typhus, shigellosis, plague — medieval diseases are making a resurgence in the U.S. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Jeffrey Duchin explains... California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed concern about ...

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 ...

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 ...