Epidemics, Plagues, and the Like

In the news . . .

• Plagues of field mice decimating crops, say German farmers -- The Guardian (13 August 2020)
  
  
• Somalia declares emergency over locust swarms -- BBCNews (02 February 2020)
  
  
• Lithuanian Mummies Offer New Insight into Health and Disease, Including the History of Smallpox, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 23, 9 June 2017
  
  
• DNA Confirms Cause of 1665 London's Great Plague -- BBC News (08 September 2016)
  
  
• Medieval Victim Reveals Secrets of the Plague of Justinian -- Science (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Plague: A Scourge From Ancient to Modern Times -- LiveScience (01 July 2016)
  
  
• 'Eye-Watering' Scale of Black Death's Impact on England Revealed -- Guardian (23 May 2016)
  
  
• New research maps in unique detail the devastation of the Black Death on medieval England -- ScienceDaily (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Plague Victims: Did the Quarantine Help or Hurt? -- LiveScience (10 May 2016)
  
  
• How Europe Exported the Black Death -- Science (26 April 2016)
  
  
• Plague may have persisted in Europe during 300-year period, including 'Black Death' -- ScienceDaily (13 January 2016)
  
  
• Plague traced back to Bronze Age -- BBC News (23 October 2015)
  
  
• See How the Plague Swept Through London -- Smithsonian News (01 September 2015)
  
  
• Plague May Not Be Solely to Blame for Black Death’s Mortality -- New Scientist (28 July 2015)
  
  
• Plague Evolution: How a Mild Stomach Bug Became a Worldwide Killer -- LiveScience (30 June 2015)
  
  
• Did Ebola Strike Ancient Athens? -- LiveScience (17 June 2015)
  
  
• How Europeans Brought Sickness to the New World -- Science (04 June 2015)
  
  
• Gerbils Likely Pushed Plague To Europe in Middle Ages -- NPR (24 February 2015)
  
  
• 'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death -- BBC News (23 February 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Plague's DNA Revived From A 1,500-Year-Old Tooth -- NPR (29 January 2014)
  
  
• 1,500-Year-Old Plague Victims Shed Light on Disease Origins -- Guardian (27 January 2014)
  
  
• Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire, Graveyard Suggests -- LiveScience (10 May 2013)
  
  
• Growth Rings from the Days of the Black Death -- ScienceNordic (12 March 2013)
  
  

• 1918 Flu -- NOVA Science Now (November 2006)
  
  
• Biblical Plagues Really Happened Say Scientists -- Telegraph (27 March 2010)
  
  
• Black Death genetic code 'built' -- BBC News (12 October 2011)
  
  
• Black Death Strain May be Extinct -- Discovery News (30 August 2011)
  
  

• Black Death Study Lets Rats off the Hook -- Past Horizons (24 August 2011)
  
  
• Bubonic Plague Originated in China -- Discovery News (01 November 2010)
  
  
• The Case of a Tropical Disease and Its Treatment: Science, Society, and Economics -- National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
  
  
• Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images -- National Library of Medicine
  
  
• Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics -- Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library
  
  
• The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 -- The National Archives
  
  
• Decoding the Black Death: Anthropologist Finds Clues in Medieval Skeletons -- Science Daily (05 September 2012)
  
  
• Did Weather Make the Plague Worse? -- Discovery News (07 June 2011)
  
  
• DNA Highlights Native American Die-Off [smallpox] -- Science News (05 December 2011)
  
  
• Does Religion Influence Epidemics? -- Science (23 August 2011)
  
  
• Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Penguin, 1995.
  
  
• Genome Reveals Evidence for Antique Bubonic Plague Pandemic -- Past Horizons (29 Novmber 2012)
  
  
• How the Black Death Changed the World -- LiveScience (28 April 2008)
  
  
• Mass Grave in London Reveals How Volcano Caused Global Catastrophe -- Guardian (04 August 2012)
  
  
• THE PATH OF A PANDEMIC: How one virus spread from pigs and birds to humans around the globe
  
  
• Relic Reveals Noah's Ark Was Circular -- Guardian (01 January 2010)
  
  
• Skeletons from the 18th Century Reveal Typhus Epidemic from Spain -- ScienceDaily (10 November 2010)
  
  
• Skeletons point to Columbus voyage for syphilis origins -- Past Horizons (21 December 2011)
  
  
• Spawn of Medieval "Black Death" Bug Still Roam the Earth -- National Geographic News (12 October 2011)
  
  
• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health -- World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center, University of Pittsburgh