plague

Science

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

World+Biz

Plague of mice hits parts of rural Australia

Jim O’Neill/ Former treasury minister, United Kingdom

Thoughts

Reflections on a plague year

Panorama

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

Panorama

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

Panorama

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

Panorama

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

Thoughts