How 3 prior pandemics triggered massive societal shifts

Pandemics can alter a society’s fundamental worldview, upend core economic structures and sway power struggles among nations

Two cases of pneumonic plague reported in northern China

Chinese officials downplay, say both patients are being treated as rules mandate

Plague puzzle

Mystifying the plague

The return of a scourge

Inviting the plague

With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene

Plaguing the question

Plagued

It's time plague sheds its horror image

Rehabilitation measures denounced

Plagueing policies

Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 years

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

India develops PPR vaccine

Against sheep and goat plague

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Rats not responsible for ‘Black Death’ in medieval Europe: study

Climate change and gerbils, another rodent species spread the deadly disease, it says

Bioterrorism? Child's play

Global warming can even cause plague

Plague is spreading to new areas

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Drugs standard body proposes banning animal test for human vaccines

The proposal has been put in public domain for comments    

Remains of Venice plague

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Global warning: Upsurge of plague in Congo

World human plague cases lowest in 30 years, but WHO warns it remains a particularly “formidable epidemic disease”  

Plague bacteria may be hiding in common soil or water microbes, waiting to emerge

Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely …

Looking for a non-Western lens to the Black Death? Try this translation of a work written in Mamluk Egypt

‘Merits of the Plague’ was written 600 years ago by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a medieval polymath

After bats, do not make marmots into villains: Expert

The rodents have come into focus ever since reports surfaced of a bubonic plague outbreak in Mongolia, China and the Russian Far East