Throughout the ages, writers and historians who have witnessed pandemics have chronicled their impact and provided us with a valuable history lesson on how not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.

A Cultural History of the Plague Laura Ashe explores how the plague has changed our social and cultural landscape and informs our responses to current emergencies such as Ebola. Show more ...

Plagues have always engineered history, but we can change that It’s not just the coronavirus. In ‘Pathogenesis,’ Jonathan Kennedy challenges us to think big about the enduring impacts of ...

Explore the complete guide to the plague—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Learn symptoms, causes, history, treatments, and prevention all in one place ...

A 15th-century Arabic disquisition on the plague has appeared for the first time in English translation, writes David Tresilian ...

Scientists have discovered how adaptations in a single gene helped the plague survive for hundreds of years. Responsible for the deadliest pandemic in history, the bacterium that causes the plague ...