In 396 BCE, as Carthaginian forces laid siege to Syracuse, a devastating plague erupted among their troops. The disease, intensified by the marshy terrain around Syracuse, spread rapidly through ...

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...