This week, San Francisco's historic Chinese Hospital celebrated a historic anniversary: 125 years of serving the community.

Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

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The three ages of the ancient world - Stone, Bronze, and Iron - encompass the formative years of human history in most ...

Black rats of the type that spread bubonic plague may have triggered one of the biggest outbreaks of the deadly Sars epidemic, it has been claimed. Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ...

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National ...

Madagascar is one of the last places where outbreaks of human bubonic plague still happen regularly. Fleas carrying the ...

A history of the bacterial disease of bubonic plague, and of the mortality, distress and panic fear that it caused in the British Isles from The Great Pestilence of 1348 to The Plague of London in ...

How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The ...

Bubonic Plague first invaded American shores in early 1900, launching political and scientific warfare, invoking quarantines and forced vaccines, triggering social upheaval and racial justice concerns ...

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