Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

"In order to prevent the entry of dangerous infectious diseases into Russia, sanitary and quarantine measures are taken at all border crossing points," the statement added ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

Most of public health is based on the working hypothesis that disease is caused by exposure to noxious factors in the external environment. While this approach has produced great successes in primary ...