Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...

Angola has recorded 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to the Health ...

Luanda: Angola has recorded 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to the ...

You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of ...

The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

In the years 1880 to 1920, we literally transformed the health environment,” says David Rosner, a professor of history and public health at Columbia University, and author of the book, Building the ...

Accra, Jan. 30. GNA – Ghana’s cholera outbreak has so far claimed the lives of 43 persons and a total of 480 infections, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. The cholera outbreak, which hit the ...

The 19th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. A large number of the 19th's original recruits had already served with the Australian Naval and ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to deploy its response team to Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa-Ibom states, where suspected and confirmed cases of cholera are reported.

21 January 2025 — When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to ...