SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to 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, ...

No one would accuse Simon Schama of writing a blasé book, even when he ventures beyond his bailiwick. In his eloquent, discursive "Foreign Bodies," the art historian and Europhile turns his colossal ...

Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...

Throughout all of human history, mankind has recorded pandemics large and small. From the Justinian Plague of 541-542 AD to the Bubonic Plague of the fourteenth century (1346-53), cholera pandemics ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world about his latest book, ...

For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic. From the earliest thinking of the Greek physician and philosopher Claudius Galen to the 19th-century British “father of ...

MOORHEAD — We all look forward to the day we'll no longer have to talk about the coronavirus pandemic, but a century from now, schoolchildren from Fargo-Moorhead and beyond will be walking through ...

Almost five years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out. The ...