Discover the deadliest epidemics and pandemics in history — including ones that have wiped out entire civilizations. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Here are the worst epidemics and pandemics in history, dating from prehistoric to modern times. Public domain When yellow fever seized Philadelphia, the United States' capital at the time ...

This infographic, created by the people at Sound Vascular, charts the epidemics that defined their era, from the Justinian Plague that killed 25 million people across the Roman Empire in 541AD, to ...

Frank M. Snowden, Andrew Downey Orrick professor emeritus of history and history of medicine at Yale University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how epidemics have shaped world history.

Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought. July 25, 2020. A close-up view of a jaw bone. (iStock) By Ian Morse.

This course analyses the impact of epidemic disease on human societies and economies from the Black Death to the present. It examines arguments and evidence about epidemics' relationship to economic, ...