Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

The Atlantic: Andrea Milne, lecturer in history and SAGES teaching fellow, discussed taking a community-centered approach to addressing outbreaks of infectious diseases, offering HIV as a historical ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Plague is one of the deadliest diseases in human history, second only to smallpox. A bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and associated fleas, plague readily leaps to humans in close contact.

Background With the acceleration of globalisation and the increasing frequency of international exchanges, the risk of ...