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Genome evidence points to plague in Stone Age European population crash

New research based on DNA obtained from human bones and teeth excavated from ancient burial tombs in Scandinavia - seven from an area in Sweden called Falbygden, one from coastal Sweden close to...

Mice run away on a farm in Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia March 12, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. MELANIE MOERIS/via REUTERS

Plague of mice hits parts of rural Australia

Jim O’Neill/ Former treasury minister, United Kingdom

Reflections on a plague year

How the search for flavour spread the plague

How the search for flavour spread the plague

A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from a plague patient, is seen in an undated photo. Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Foreign Policy

The Bubonic plague killed feudalism. Covid-19 will entrench it.

Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742. Illustration: Foreign Policy/Austrian national library

Empire’s little helper

Social distancing can reduce the spreading of coronavirus at a tremendous rate, yet we are failing to maintain the social distance that we were supposed to do. Photo: Saikat Bhadra/TBS

Surviving a plague together

A H7N9 bird flu patient is treated in a hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, on Feb 12, 2017 Photo: Getty Images via Foreign Policy

The real reason to panic about China’s plague outbreak