A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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.

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has reached a 33-year record high, years after it was officially eliminated in the ...

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

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our ...