A discovery among the mummies reveals a sick, sad truth. Parasitic worms plagued these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. ~humanities.history Link 8 votes
DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers ~humanities.history Article 974 words, published Jan 18 2024 11 votes
The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him ~humanities.history Video 12:44 14 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
An equine influenza in 1872 brought the US to a standstill and laid bare how essential horses were to the economy ~humanities.history Article 1131 words 6 votes
Holiday gatherings devastated Seattle during 1918 flu: After five weeks of lock down restrictions, the city thought it had beaten the virus. It hadn’t. ~humanities.history Link 15 votes
How the 1918 flu pandemic got meme-ified in jokes, songs, and poems ~humanities.history Article 1571 words 9 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease ~humanities.history Article 1605 words, published Mar 29 2018 6 votes
This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before? ~humanities.history Article 1729 words 8 votes
The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it ~humanities.history Article 1527 words, published Mar 7 2020 9 votes
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria ~humanities.history Article 1187 words 4 votes
4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease ~humanities.history Article 511 words 8 votes
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu ~humanities.history Article 1709 words 9 votes