Influenza spreads in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when per capita hospital beds plummet below typical levels in developed countries. Bedside discrimination leads some patients to ...

A mathematical model is a simplified description of reality that can be used to solve practical problems, predict future events or explain how different systems work. During pandemics, mathematical ...

Infectious diseases have plagued humankind throughout history. When small bands of hunter-gatherers contracted an illness, it might have remained relatively contained; but as agrarian societies ...

Four types of animal-to-human (zoonotic) Infections have been increasing at an "exponential rate," amid a general pattern of increasingly larger and more frequent 'spillover' epidemics, finds an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the course of history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course of history and, at times, ...

From a dancing epidemic in the Middle Ages to the New York City teen tics in 2011, these epidemics are unusual. You’ve heard of epidemics – an infectious disease that takes over a specific region – ...

"Eipidéim" is a new presenter-led history and science documentary series on the untold stories of the other great epidemics of Ireland’s past – smallpox, cholera and typhus, tuberculosis, polio, ...

A new model shows how sharing disease through physical contact and dissemination of information through social networks affect how outbreaks spread. When an epidemic strikes, more than just infections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history have doomed whole civilizations and brought once powerful nations to their ...