Why did plague doctors wear that weird beaked costume?
The sinister uniform represents a fascinating trip into history, during a time when humans were still struggling to understand infectious ...
The sinister uniform represents a fascinating trip into history, during a time when humans were still struggling to understand infectious ...
"We now have a pathogen whose molecular history we can follow for thousands of years," says paper co-author McCormick. "The ...
New research seems to vindicate rats as the harbingers of one of the deadliest diseases in history.
Tracking the plague's origins -- so something like it won't happen again.